Not just PK but many other countries, and not just the Muslim communities. just as bad things happen with other South Asian faith communities. For instance the Rajputs (who are Hindu) have been bad for this as well.
in SE and East Asia Japan isn’t Muslim of course and doesn’t have honour killings these days (they have happened in Imperial days) but has very low penalties against harrasment or even rape.
When a US soldier raped a young girl (about 10/11) he was nicked but they could only give him 3 years as that was the maximum sentence for rape at the time!
All that cosplay and Gothic Lolita stuff looks cute but the basis of it actually happens because young girls there are treated as sex objects, and then expected to be good compliant housewives when they get older – acting out cartoon fantasies of heroines during the time from their teens to when they graduate from uni is the only empowerment Japanese girls/women seem to get (compared to other East Asian countries JP really seems a bit backward with equality, ironic considering their technical advances)
The countries with the strongest womens rights in Asia are Singapore (which hasn’t got a great deal of personal freedom but can be “firm but fair”) and modern (not rural) parts of China (such as the South and Hong Kong, where women are vital for their work in industry).
Even in our rich, “politically correct” Western countries womens rights have been (literally) taking a battering. its a lot more subtle though, in very right on countries like Sweden (where feminists have genuine political power) men often take out their anger on marginalised women like sex workers, immigrant communities and in the rural area.
I grew up in the 80s and even in my life I’ve noticed a decline in British women’s rights, (although Britain is high up the scale in the EU, above many Medditeranean nations) and domestic abuse has shot through the roof. In my teens it was virtually unheard of amongst teenage and young adult couples – now it is sadly quite common..
