Victims of domestic violence find it harder to leave their partners due to being financially manipulated and dependent on them. As a result, many are forced into poverty or debt once they can escape.
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Farwa Zaidi (she/her/hers) is a graduate student and intern for WOMEN’S WAY in Philadelphia. Her passions are reading, racial and gender equity, and dismantling systems of oppression.
In America, Muslims are often seen as a monolith. As a whole, we have experienced discrimination and persecution from non-Muslims. What people may not know is that Islam actually consists of many sects, including Sunnism, Shi’ism, Ismailism, and Ahmadiyya, much like how Christianity includes Protestantism and Catholicism. The minority sects, specifically Shi’ism, are currently being persecuted in multiple Muslim-majority countries (Human Rights Watch), including the genocide of Shias in Pakistan (Al Jazeera).
