"I saw shadows. Sombreness. Oppression. Maybe even something sinister."

"You will never convince me of the rightness of some of those practices. No argument can convince me of the justice of jailing a woman for talking to a man who is not a close relative. Or that it is the "free" choice of a woman to cover herself from head to toe. Or that a woman fluent in English requires her 16-year-old son to speak on her behalf in her workplace — which, incidentally, happens here in Halifax, as has been recounted to me."

Read on.