Re: Muslim girl treated as outcast by moque community
Which is why if her dance were done in private, it truley would be between her and God.
But since it isn't, and it openly challenges widely held mores in her community, then I'm afraid that "don't watch" exhortation doesn't hold weight. Acts done in public influence, if one is observing or not. By not doing anything, one is sending a message...control of the public sphere is a classic social battle ground.
As I said, the burden in this sort of fight always falls on those who buck the status quo...so if we look at the causality of it all, our own bias aside, it's clearly her and her family, and whomever who insists on making this rather pedestrian local dispute a national/international issue, who is agitating...and not those who oppose her.