Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
More Quotes from Taslima Nasrin:
I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.Taslima Nasrin
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.
Taslima Nasrin
Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
Taslima Nasrin
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.
Taslima Nasrin
If any religion allows the persecution of the people of different faiths, if any religion keeps women in slavery, if any religion keeps people in ignorance, then I can't accept that religion.
Taslima Nasrin
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