3 days ago
KHADIJA KHAN: I don't approve of burning books, but the man on trial for setting fire to a Koran has a right to protest, whatever Islamists and their apologists say
Growing up in my native Pakistan, I came to the conclusion that Islam was discriminatory and misogynistic. It was a religion that had been weaponised to keep independent-thinking women like me, and anyone who opposes the fundamentalists, in their place by fear.
I'd watched, appalled, at news footage of people being lynched in the street or burned alive for raising the questions about Islam I had privately asked myself.
