Consider Azam Kamguian in Ibn Warraq’s Leaving Islam, for instance. Page 216.
The very fact that people are forced to abide by laws based on something some god or prophet is reported to have said somewhere is a form of mental violence.
Page 219.
… Read the restWhen I came to the West in the early 1990s, I was faced with the fact that the majority of intellectuals, mainstream media, academics, and feminists, in the name of respecting ‘other cultures,’ were trying to justify Islam by dividing it into fundamentalist and moderate, progressive and reactionary…For people like me, the victims of Islam in power, it was suffocating to listen to and have to refute endless tales to justify the terror and bloodshed