It was a response to the horrifying incidence of child abuse among the indigenous population, the product perhaps of unemployment, drugs, drunkenness, family breakdown and despair.

ECONOMIST: A distinct society, perhaps becoming less so

In 2007, horrifying reports of child abuse surfaced.

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What I do know is that the fact that Awad uses the Koran (and presumably its call for the destruction of non-believers and abuse of women, among other things) as his moral compass is no less than horrifying.

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