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On April 10, the authorities at the Manila airport — her stopover in the Philippines between Kuwait, from where she’d escaped a forced marriage, and Australia, where she’d planned on applying for asylum — confiscated Ms. Lasloom’s passport and boarding pass to Sydney and held her at an airport hotel until her uncles arrived. When they did, they beat her and forcibly repatriated her.
Ah yes, the religion of peace
It has nothing to do with Islam in particular and everything to do with religious conservatism.
Yes, a little louder for the American's in the room! Religious conservatism is spread the world over and is a danger to us all no matter what religion takes it up.
We cannot turn our backs on it. It cannot be contained to certain areas. It must be eradicated the world over. Women's rights are human rights. No ideology that seeks to degrade women or deny them rights, even if the women of that culture have internalized the lie of that ideology and seek to live it out, should be tolerated anywhere in the world.
The name of the religion matters little if at all. The ideology is the same. It is a man's fist gripping a woman such that she moves, breathes, even thinks at his will and whim. It makes women things to be possessed. Fuck that.
You're not allowed to say that around here, a bunch of people will come in and defend Islam saying that billions of people practice it and only a tiny tiny group does anything wrong...
My god, the horror of this excerpt.
I don't care what people choose to do spiritually, it's your life as long as you stay out of mine, but nobody should have to wrap themselves up like a baked potato just to exist.
This article is from 2017. It's 7 years old.
Damn don't say thing like that .
And yet, if anything has changed at all it's because they're getting worse.