After reading the news of 60 masked men, armed with iron rods, who barged into an all-girls high school in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, to enforce their vision of female modesty, I asked myself this question: what right do these “keepers-of-faith” have to rigorously impose Islamic morals on other people? I asked myself the same question when I read the news that Saudi morality police—acting as “God’s agents” on earth to prevent sin—beat up a woman and a man accompanying her on suspicion of dating. They turned out to be related.
