It's not the political leadership, it's the financial levers. Visa and Mastercard, specifically. Yes, there's an overlap there, but your use of the expression

It's not the political leadership, it's the financial levers. Visa and Mastercard, specifically. Yes, there's an overlap there, but your use of the expression "a ban on religion in the political space" highlights the problem. To frame it first as a political problem in the sense of political parties and professional politicians misses where the harm is being done; and to expand the definition of "political space" in your ban to include private financial operators would ban religion entirely. And that's also not possible to do while calling yourself a free country.