This photo of 11-year old child bride sitting next to her 40-year old fiance captures a small, everyday moment that wouldn’t surprise anyone in the Taliban. But to Western eyes it is quite a different matter. Dutch writer Leon de Winter: Our eyes behold an abomination. Our eyes have learned to see the world from the perspective of a slowly acquired sense for humanity. And although more and more voices tell us that we — the former colonialists and imperialists — have lost the right to judge other cultures, we know just as well as this girl that this marriage is wrong.
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