Rather than criticising these practices (which is offensive), we should be respectful and open-minded if we want to encourage cohesive community relations. Many of those shouting about Islam or other religions being oppressive haven’t the first idea of what they actually entail.
Many of the people discussing the oppression of Islam, Christianity, and other faiths are people who were raised in them, experienced abuse, left and speak out against the abuses & have faced threats and violence for speaking out. Why should we not be protected in being able to speak out against the beliefs that actively harmed us? Why should we be dismissed as not having 'the first idea of what they actually entail' when it was our lives? Why are our beliefs and experiences less worth protecting or expressing than theirs?
You are aware that's what abusive religious members do, right, there is a whole thing about 'true believers' never leave and that speaking out proves we were not one of them and deserve their wrath? That these practices include violence?
You have devotees take pictures outside of where you study, telling you how the 'fruit of your womb' rightfully should be theirs, and see how open minded and compliant you want to be to them. Them deciding the 'redress' of the insult of my leaving and speaking out against corruption in the church would be them having my kids, like 're-educating' me. I will not be respectful to the religious group that stalked me and threatened to kidnap my kids because they viewed them as their property because I was baptised into it as a child and dared to leave. I will not be silenced by people who think if we don't speak out, don't ruffle feathers, that it encourages community relations - it doesn't, it only encourages them to push further. What is needed for peace is the cultural ideal we already have if we still fall short - that we are all equal as people, that no one can use their beliefs in any faith to silence another. None of us have the right not to be offended.
You should also be aware that some blasphemy laws prevent both victims of abuse from speaking and academics from discussing their work - things like evidence of the texts being edited over time or the archaeological and textual evidence of monolarty rather than monotheism or debates in translation. It's not really about respect or open-minded if we can't let those who have direct experience of harm or even most basic academic discussions on it.
whereas criticising Norse gods isn’t so serious.
Surely, to be open-minded and respectful, that should be up to those that follow Heathenry.