Why it's important to speak against religions.

As an ex-muslim. I spend a lot of time on social media and in person to always dismantle Islam. Many people ask me why I do that and that if I don't believe in the faith I should just let it go and the simple reason is that it is oppressing people many of whom I personally know.

Islam is an ideology that calls for the oppression and otherisation of other people. Homosexuals, women, kafirs, slaves and sex slaves. Let's take women as an example. Growing up as a Muslim man, I could clearly see the shift of how the girls started to be treated differently, their dreams shut down, fashion controlled, movement policed and freedoms taken away just because they were female. Girls that had dreams and wants suddenly dimmed, told to prepare essentially for marriage and having a child which would be their only way to be successful in life.

In the early teens, as the boy continues being child like, with even more freedoms, the girl is now unable to interact with male cousins, has to talk low, put on a veil, not smell good because now she is a commodity. Ofcourse men are comfortable in religion as it doesn't affect them. They can marry multiple women, gods angels intervene when they're denied sex by their wives and they don't have to cover.

While for liberal women and Muslim women in the west, Islam is a spiritual fairytale to be picked and chosen, where they won't be wearing hijabs while defending Islam, the reality in Muslim dominated areas and even families, it is not a choice.

If an ideology causes the suffering of millions and in this case maybe billions of people, that ideology must be spoken against.

It is not Islamophobia to point out that Islam hating on gays or calling for death of people who leave it, or the skewed rules against women.

Critisizing will lead to two potential outcomes, Muslims trying to change the religion, which is happening and is hypocritical as the religion is unchangeable which will anyway lead to the second option which is the erasure of the religion.

Bothe the scenarios will lead to less oppression and that's why I beleive, in a society, as long as there is oppression then we are not free and until the women in Afghanistan are not free, non of us are.