It takes a village to raise a child? Irshad Manji (Author: The Trouble With Islam Today: A Muslim’s Call for Reform in Her Faith) is convinced ‘that it takes a global village to transform the local village into a place of dignity for every child’:

So how ironic that, for many children in the Muslim world, the village is the problem, not the solution. Actually, it’s village idiots who are the problem. Let me illustrate.

Village Idiot #1: In Pakistan, Senator Sardar Israrullah Zehri has defended the fact that three girls and two women were buried alive in his remote town. Their “crime”? According to reports, they wished “to marry of their own will.”

Senator Village Idiot sees nothing wrong with shooting these girls, then flinging them into dirt pits as their bodies cling to life. He calls the brutality a part of “our tribal custom.”

Now, which Indian author is going to talk about the village idiots in the Hindu world, I wonder.