seen on Reddit: Leblouh - the practice of force-feeding girls from as young as five to nineteen, in (Arab) countries where obesity was traditionally regarded as desirable
I am intensely skeptical about the accuracy of this article. It seems like it is taking an obscure phenomenon and inflating it out of proportion. And, relying on an absence of evidence against this phenomenon outside the Veil of History as the primary source of evidence.
Most of the sources in the past 10 years are clearly "activists who have no experience with the phenomenon other than reading the Wikipedia article".