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Aug 27, 2021, 9:28 PM

I see myself in that Afghan girl – and I want to scream

Afghan women in burqas walk on a street in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 22, 2021. (AP/Rahmat Gul)

As a Jewish, female refugee from Libya, I know all too well the consequences for women and girls in a society that takes religious dogma to the nth degree. Shame on us.

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Giulia Boukhobza, a refugee from Libya as a teenager, lives in the United States.