“Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.”
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The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.
Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.
Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.