Original title: "Soefies en transgenders: Kinderen van een betere God" (Sufis and transgenders: Children of a better God) by Wilma van der Maten.Pakistani transgender Inaya applied for political asylum in the Netherlands in 2017 after her father threatened to kill her in an act of 'honor killing'. Both culture and religion do not accept such sinners. Yet in the ancient Indus civilization five thousand years ago there was great respect for transgender women called hijras. They guarded the harems of the Muslim princes (between 1526-1858).Under colonial British rule, discrimination began. But in
