Prehistoric policing
Put on your veil!
Pray each day
And obey without ceasing!
Or else
You’ll be subject to
Prehistoric policing!
Read the scripture!
Follow the dogma!
Not to do so is a sin!
If you do not
You’ll be hammered with
Prehistoric policing!
Do not question
The tenets of faith!
Throw all logic in the bin!
Faith is not rational.
It needs to be enforced
With prehistoric policing!
Opher – 2.11.2019
I was driven to write this poem by a video clip of a poor woman who was shot through the head for going to the market without her veil. The Nazi religious police stopped her, beat her and forced her to her knees. They recited verse, gathered a crowd, put a gun to her head and blew her brains out – all because her face was not covered.
Across the world millions of women and children are subject to prehistoric policing. They are forced to spend hours memorising scripture. They are forced to wear heavy robes and full face veils.
This is not religious freedom. This is slavery.
These religious fanatics create a fascist tyranny! Their misogynistic view of religion is draconian and prehistoric.
Religion should be a matter of choice – not coercion.