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> [Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa to that effect, which was then given effect in the Islamic Republic of Iran, so in the Islamic Republic of Iran, it's flexible enough to allow for sex changes, and it encourages sex changes. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sadakat-kadri/ayatollah-khomeini-issued-a-fatwa-to-that-effect-which-was-then-given/)

[Sadakat Kadri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sadakat-kadri/)

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> [One of things that surprised me when I was in Iran was to find out that the country finances seven times as many sex change operations as the entire European Union. And the reason for that is because Ayatollah Khomeini…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sadakat-kadri/one-of-things-that-surprised-me-when-i-was-in-iran-was-to-find-out/)

[Sadakat Kadri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sadakat-kadri/)

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## More by Sadakat Kadri

> [There's crucial distinction that has to be drawn between the Shari'a, which is this hugely expansive vision of cosmic order that I've been describing,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sadakat-kadri/there-s-crucial-distinction-that-has-to-be-drawn-between-the-shari-a/)

[Sadakat Kadri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sadakat-kadri/)

> [I realized that the ignorance was profound. I don't mean that in a pejorative sense, it's just that people didn't know what the Shari'a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sadakat-kadri/i-realized-that-the-ignorance-was-profound-i-don-t-mean-that-in-a/)

[Sadakat Kadri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sadakat-kadri/)

> [The Shari'a itself - this is possibly a kind of verbal debate - is understood to be something different from the Fiqh, and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sadakat-kadri/the-shari-a-itself-this-is-possibly-a-kind-of-verbal-debate-is/)

[Sadakat Kadri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sadakat-kadri/)

> [My father's from Pakistan and he has been a secularist all his life. In the Pakistani context, there's no messing with religion. There's been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sadakat-kadri/my-father-s-from-pakistan-and-he-has-been-a-secularist-all-his-life/)

[Sadakat Kadri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sadakat-kadri/)

> [I work in the human rights field and there are serious conflicts between certain interpretations of Islamic law and human rights. That's something which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sadakat-kadri/i-work-in-the-human-rights-field-and-there-are-serious-conflicts/)

[Sadakat Kadri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sadakat-kadri/)

> [One of the big problems in this field is that there's so much mystification that surrounds talk of the Shari'a, whether its saying that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sadakat-kadri/one-of-the-big-problems-in-this-field-is-that-there-s-so-much/)

[Sadakat Kadri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sadakat-kadri/)

> [I was a teenager when General Zia took power in the Pakistan; I was in my twenties when I went there during the late…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sadakat-kadri/i-was-a-teenager-when-general-zia-took-power-in-the-pakistan-i-was-in/)

[Sadakat Kadri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sadakat-kadri/)

> [People are coupling and decoupling all the time in Great Britain. The fact that Muslims choose to precede it with a certain formula of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sadakat-kadri/people-are-coupling-and-decoupling-all-the-time-in-great-britain-the/)

[Sadakat Kadri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sadakat-kadri/)

> [I think it's important to understand Shari'a to be rooted in history - what we know about the history and what we don't know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sadakat-kadri/i-think-it-s-important-to-understand-shari-a-to-be-rooted-in-history/)

[Sadakat Kadri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sadakat-kadri/)

> [There's a feminist critique of Muslim Arbitration Tribunals, which I'm certainly not unsympathetic to, because as I keep saying, I come from a human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sadakat-kadri/there-s-a-feminist-critique-of-muslim-arbitration-tribunals-which-i-m/)

[Sadakat Kadri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sadakat-kadri/)

> [I didn't quite know whether I was writing for the non-Muslim or the Muslim, and at the end of the day I'm writing, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sadakat-kadri/i-didn-t-quite-know-whether-i-was-writing-for-the-non-muslim-or-the/)

[Sadakat Kadri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sadakat-kadri/)

> [In 1979, you had the revolution in Iran. You had the Hudood Ordinances in Pakistan, which are the laws that are notoriously used against…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sadakat-kadri/in-1979-you-had-the-revolution-in-iran-you-had-the-hudood-ordinances/)

[Sadakat Kadri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sadakat-kadri/)

> [Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa to that effect, which was then given effect in the Islamic Republic of Iran, so in the Islamic Republic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sadakat-kadri/ayatollah-khomeini-issued-a-fatwa-to-that-effect-which-was-then-given/)

[Sadakat Kadri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sadakat-kadri/)

> [Whereas a man is entitled to marry three more times and that fosters great abuse, even scholars accept that. So certainly since the 1980s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sadakat-kadri/whereas-a-man-is-entitled-to-marry-three-more-times-and-that-fosters/)

[Sadakat Kadri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sadakat-kadri/)

> [The politicized version of Shia Islam that we see in the Islamic Republic post-1979 clearly is very conservative, but, there are other things one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sadakat-kadri/the-politicized-version-of-shia-islam-that-we-see-in-the-islamic/)

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