“In my Islamic country, a girl was disrespectfully, dishonorably lynched and burned, and what has happened? We have left our home. They never caught all the people. What are we to do?” asked Mujibullah Malikzada, elder brother of a 27-year-old woman Farkhunda Malikzada, who was accused of burning a Quran and was brutally beaten to death by a mob of men in Afghanistan as police watched. The New York Times published a heart-wrenching account of Malikzada’s death—and the lack of justice for Afghan women—in harrowing detail on Saturday.
