Women In Islam Quotes

“Who are your favorite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

“As he defended the book one evening in the early 1980s at the Carnegie Endowment in New York, I knew that some of what he said was true enough, just as some of it was arguably less so. (Edward incautiously dismissed 'speculations about the latest conspiracy to blow up buildings or sabotage commercial airliners' as the feverish product of 'highly exaggerated stereotypes.') Covering Islam took as its point of departure the Iranian revolution, which by then had been fully counter-revolutionized by the forces of the Ayatollah. Yes, it was true that the Western press—which was one half of the pun about 'covering'—had been naïve if not worse about the Pahlavi regime. Yes, it was true that few Middle East 'analysts' had had any concept of the latent power of Shi'ism to create mass mobilization. Yes, it was true that almost every stage of the Iranian drama had come as a complete surprise to the media. But wasn't it also the case that Iranian society was now disappearing into a void of retrogressive piety that had levied war against Iranian Kurdistan and used medieval weaponry such as stoning and amputation against its internal critics, or even against those like unveiled women whose very existence constituted an offense?”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

“One of the most essential tasks of modern Muslim scholarship is to distinguish genuine, useful and constructive knowledge from pseudo-scientific, materialist theory and speculation.”
― Maryam Jameelah, Islam and Modernism

“From the Islamic point of view, the question of the equality of men and women is meaningless. It is like discussing the equality of a rose and a jasmine. Each has its own perfume, colour, shape and beauty.”
― Maryam Jameelah, The Feminist Movement and the Muslim World

“We like to speak of Islam and liberation, but we close women behind curtains and walls and call it modesty. What modesty is there in men who cannot control their desires and who project upon women their subjugation fantasies? Every time we tell a woman to not speak or act or appear or breathe, we only affirm our own immodesty. What modesty is there in resisting temptation, not by sanitizing our hearts, but by purging women and turning our sisters and wives into a subjugated colony?”
― Khaled Abou El Fadl, The Search for Beauty in Islam: A Conference of the Books

“But is it not a husband who will provide you with a stable and happy life - it is God.”
― Khaled Abou El Fadl, The Search for Beauty in Islam: A Conference of the Books

“That's how our human mind works, we desire to be perfect just to fit in with some people or groups, and we try our best to impress others when our heart is grieving for what we became.”
― Sarah Khalil A.A., Journal Of Life

“Maryam Jameelah’s significance [lies] in the manner with which she articulates an internally consistent paradigm for [Islamic] revivalism’s rejection of the West,” her entry in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World reads. “In this regard, her influence far exceeds [that of] the Jamaat [e-Islami] and has been important in the development of revivalist thought across the Muslim world.”
― Deborah Baker, The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism

“Vali Nasr, Mawdudi’s biographer and an authority on political Islam (also referred to as Islamic revivalism), describes Maryam Jameelah as broadly responsible for cementing the global cultural divide between Islam and the West.”
― Deborah Baker, The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism

“Muslim women are compelled to perceive polygamy as both normal and moral because it has been legitimated by Allah in the Quran and was practised by Mohammad and all the founders of Islam. Every now and then, a Muslim woman appears on a TV talk show to say with pride that she has arranged for her husband to marry another woman and that she is fine with that because it is halal. This mentality is the product of intergenerational indoctrination by violence and economic suppression.”
― Theo Alistair, Mass Insanity

“How could the religion that “liberated” women transform them into an “awra?” How could women be liberated, but denied existence?”
― Khaled Abou El Fadl, The Search for Beauty in Islam: A Conference of the Books

“I fear that the seclusion of women has taught them that what is secluded is to be possessed and owned. And, all possessions are to be used.”
― Khaled Abou El Fadl, The Search for Beauty in Islam: A Conference of the Books