The Secular One's Blog – January 2011 Archive (1)

The holidays and the intolerance of religion

I ran into a couple of great moments of religious intolerance over the holidays. One involved a friend of my wife, and another involved myself.



The instance with our friend involves a clash of religions between her relatively recent conversion to Islam and her family's strong Hindu stance. It has come to the point where I am worried about violence against her from her family as they punish her for being the wrong religion and threaten to disrupt her education (she is in medical… Continue

Added by The Secular One on January 16, 2011 at 8:33am — No Comments

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