"The mayor, Mohammad Ali Najafi, attended a celebration last week amounting to an Islamic version of Mother's Day. There he encountered six [grade-school-aged] girls dancing in traditional costumes and throwing the rose petals in honor of a female saint." Islamist hardliners were predictably outraged: said one mullah: "One cannot argue that these were children. They […]
SOURCE: The New York Times at 08:01AM on March 20, 2018