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I knew briefly a woman who had ran away from everything she knew at 17, to avoid a marriage. The stories of what counted as "normal" was horrific, especially with regards to daughters. Between the corporal punishment, starvation and strict-to-consequence-of-abandonment gender roles, it mapped closely to the popular conception of young women in radical islam.



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