Just a few details. When I say the 3 major religions. That will refer to Islam, Christianity and Hinduism. The last of which due to its massive population size.
I had gained the opportunity to study some marriage certificates from the early 2000s which involved a father selling his daughter to a grown man for 10,000 pounds.
This was happening IN AMERICA.
The contract involved "God's law" and it basically said the husband to be would provide 1 gold pound as an initial payment. When the girl reaches "legal maturity" 10,000 pounds would be paid.
Legal maturity is a euphemism for "child-bearing age"
The groom and the father signed the document, with the father being the "owner" of the daughter, making the groom the "trustee" and the girl in question didn't have a choice or even a signature. It was all made for her without her knowledge or consent.
There are countless countries where this practiced, and these countries are on the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Treating women as property of men has been a core tenet of the 3 major religions...and it has been a means of establishing control for the Patriarchy.
When these countries say that "the west corrupts women"
What they mean is that when these families move to Europe or America and raise their daughters there...the girls realize that there are women around them able to make their own life choices...able to be free. And of course those girls want the freedom.
They don't want to be slaves to men.
It should be noted that educated women are prized in arranged marriages because the father then can demand a higher price for selling his daughter off.
And what happens when these daughters don't want to be married to their cousin or some old man?
The family's "investment" is threatened.
If they cannot kidnap her or smuggle her to the country where her freedom will be taken from her?
Well....now you understand a bit of why so many religious families engage in the act of "honor killing"
If they cannot treat their daughter as property, they no longer see a reason to allow her to live.
Its horrific. Its barbaric. It is done on the regular.
And other families threaten their daughter with said fate using the names of the murdered girls in order to force them to be property.
But as the saying goes.. "Give me liberty or give me death"
And religion makes it glorified.
Because religion is built on the restriction of human rights.
It is built on suppression of women and treating them as property.
It is built on slavery.
Religion dies when feminism thrives.
It is why so many religious political groups try to portray feminism as evil .