islam is perhaps the last, great mythology for secularism to conquer. we went through hard struggles to defeat christianity, but the battle is largely won. this is my major annoyance with islam - right when we were winning the war against religion, these muslims have provided the cause of religion with a lot of fresh recruits, and in many ways thrown the struggle against religion backwards by a century, or more.

i mean, we have to have legitimate debates, now, over whether it's ok to put your daughters in scarves before they're allowed to leave the house. i don't want this debate. it's anachronistic.

really, it's unfortunate that the contemporary left has aligned with the historical right on this. leftists have generally historically agitated against these kinds of traditional rules, and stood in solidarity with the oppressed - not come up with opaque arguments about cultural relativism, and ignored individual rights in favour of some imaginary idea of collective ones.

so, i stand in solidarity with the girls that take these off. and i call for a future where they don't need to make up absurd excuses to do it, to avoid who knows what  - immediate physical punishment, banishment or perhaps even honour killings.

this is the issue, here.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.