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Basically, such women echo the line of the Durgah Trust: Women are impure and the Haji Ali tomb should be pure. This, of course, is identical to the line taken by the Sabarimala authorities, safeguarding the brahmacharya of their deity from menopausal women.
This is the power of religion, to make women believe against logic and against their own self-interest that they are lesser human beings — because they give birth to human beings.
From going to school to participating in sports, everything is just so much tougher for the girl child because of the shame associated with the menstrual cycle. Often it translates into missing school five days every month and developing hygiene-related health problems. These are inevitable corollaries of barring menstruating persons from various religious functions.
