She has vented astonishment that "seventh-century law" should rule any Muslim societies today.
My comments about religion made people angry. I said that Islam oppresses women. I criticized verses in the Koran that treat women as property, as sexual objects. And I argued that we don't need religious laws … when I began to study the Koran, the holy book of Islam, I found many unreasonable ideas. The women in the Koran were treated as slaves. They are nothing but sexual objects.
A confirmed secular humanist she takes grave exception to those Western intellectuals who promote the view that to demand separation of church from state is tantamount to Western colonization of Islamic culture. 'Some liberals always defend Islam and blame fundamentalists for creating problems. But Islam itself oppresses women. Islam itself doesn't permit democracy, and violates human rights.'
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