This reminded me of a sad but funny thing I notice around me sometimes. I have both Hindu and Muslim friends. The boys and men from Islam religion would try to entice the educated feminist Hindu women saying they don’t have dowry practices, or, that they don’t impose father or husband’s surname on women, they don’t ask women to wear any marital signs after marriage, or, their religious laws allows women to divorce the husband unconditionally (Khula) and also let’s women do business, hold property etc. more than Hindu women, doesn’t have dark practices like burning the widow in their religious books.
Then the boys and men from Hindu culture would similarly try to entice the educated feminist Muslim women saying their religion doesn’t tell women to wear burqa, niqab, hijab etc., it lets women equal rights as their male counterparts to get parent’s property after they die, it doesn’t devalue women’s witness value to half of the men’s witness value, it doesn’t ask bride price from the grooms and instead send more money with the married woman so that they can live happily in the in-laws' house, it doesn’t have the dooming caste system which doesn’t let women (also men, but mainly women, because every identity of women is based on their fathers’ or husbands’ identity in every mainstream religion) to marry outside or “below” their caste (their fathers’ caste, that is); it doesn’t have dark laws like stone the woman accused of premarital relation/sex or adultery after marriage to death or "beat but leave no sign then it’s fine" laws about women, it doesn’t encourage child marriage like the Muslims do (they refer to the story of Ayesha), doesn’t allow men to legally marry upto four wives if the previous wives permit, doesn’t (at least till now, but the andhbhakts are talking about making it a reality soon) apply a blasphemy law on the people not abiding by the rules of the religion which results into a death sentence/fatwa in many Muslim countries (this reminds me of the recent IIPS student’s arrest when he protested noise on 22nd, or, Maniratnam’s daughter’s persecution after she posted something anti-*am as per the andhbhakts).
So it’s evident that they know and understand these things they mention above or their friends from another religion/culture mention, are indeed against human rights. But the irony is when they don’t agree to let these things go and when they check down on women (and men) from their own religion/culture if they protest against these things. What else can we call it other than group politics and hypocrisy?