One night a few years ago, I heard a news report about the decision to stone a Somali woman to death because she’d had a child with a man who apparently had promised to marry her but then changed his mind.
Animal rights organizations tell us that many domestic animals around the world live in deplorable conditions—often neglected, deprived of food and shelter, and, worst of all, physically abused.
Simon Mahoney
Again and again,
I kept hearing news items involving children on the receiving end of violence: children being shot, forced into armies, abused, drugged, made to kill others … it was one item after another over a span of about three weeks.
