What's going on in Canada? Harper OUT, Liberals IN

LP · October 10, 2015, 4:55pm

Re: What’s going on in Canada?

I was with my dad in a bazar, my other siblings weren’t with us. I was 10. This was 1990, and we lived in Riyadh. I was wearing an abaya/hijab, because our school required us too, and for girls grade 7 and up we were required to niqab as well coming in or outside the school.

Khair back to the bazar outing …

The police (mutawwaas) specifically stopped my dad and lectured him and kept pointing at me, They tried to take him away a bit further to speak to him alone, but he wouldn’t let go of my hand, I still remember his grip tightly on my palm, him shaking with anger or being scared, probably both.

I remember him being so furious after this, because by 94 we had left the country.

@LP I want you to understand this isn’t an attack on a county/laws, but the government’s condescending demeanour is real and most of us pakistanis/south asians have experienced it.

That is 25 long years.