Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
Taslima Nasrin
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- Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
- 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!
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