Phrase by 'Fatema Mernissi'

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One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.

Author: Fatema Mernissi - Moroccan Activist
  Education , Understand , Women , Strong


Someone else is going to read for me or go at my place to the mosque, and/or to tell me you shouldn't take anything from the West because the West is the enemy and so on. It is to me to decide. I am intelligent enough to be critical towards the West and take what I need and reject what is bad for me.

Author: Fatema Mernissi - Moroccan Activist
  You , Me , I Am , Place


Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.

Author: Fatema Mernissi - Moroccan Activist
  Man , Law , Does , Exist


There has been a terrible hemorrhage of educated women to the West where they can flourish. I understand, but it is terrible. We must stay home.

Author: Fatema Mernissi - Moroccan Activist
  Home , Understand , Women , Stay


You find in the Koran hundreds of verses to support women's rights, and perhaps four or five that do not.

Author: Fatema Mernissi - Moroccan Activist
  You , Find , Support , Women


So much of Islam is Judeo-Christianity. It's impossible to divorce them. Islam is 600 years after Christ. Thousands of years after Judaism. Christ, Moses, Abraham - they are all in the Koran.

Author: Fatema Mernissi - Moroccan Activist
  Years , Islam , Impossible , Divorce


Educated women armed with computers have defeated extremists by denying them a monopoly to define cultural identity and interpret religious texts. No extremist can say that women are inferior to men without being made a laughingstock on Al Jazeera. Islam insisted on equality between everyone.

Author: Fatema Mernissi - Moroccan Activist
  Men , Women , Equality , Islam


There, they tell me to wear the veil. Here, they are telling me to put my hips in a little girl's skirt, and I am this lovely full woman. You've got this Ph.D. and you're worrying, 'Am I skinny enough?'

Author: Fatema Mernissi - Moroccan Activist
  Me , I Am , Girl , Woman


The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.

Author: Fatema Mernissi - Moroccan Activist
  Muslim , Version , Trials , Taliban


No man could have accepted me because I am too rebellious. It would have been catastrophe. I am too into my own thing.

Author: Fatema Mernissi - Moroccan Activist
  Me , I Am , Man , My Own


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