The sickness of Islam, when allowed to be interpreted by unqualified villagers, is made apparent in this story from Dawn. We have reported earlier on cases of vani and swara, where girls are given away in marriage, often at ridiculously young ages, to act as compensation for the crimes or transgressions of a male relative. Vani was made illegal on January 11 in Pakistan, at the same time as the banning of honour killing, and vani crimes can invoke a 10 year jail sentence. However, so far there has been no successful conviction for vani in the 17 months that...