How can it be defamatory? Are you claiming the author is defaming herself? Or is she defaming her religion? Shouldn't you be talking to her about it rather than to me, if you know her religion better than she does?

I am not intending to project "all sorts of illiberalism on religion"; I am content to let religious people speak for themselves, in all their diversity. And then combat the illiberal ones (see also the article I posted below).

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}