I think that we don't have, here in the Middle East or in Africa, as much threat to our physical and economic… — Asra Nomani Copy Share Image
Talk to me 20 years ago and I had a complete sense of illegitimacy as an American Muslim. I felt like I… — Asra Nomani Copy Share Image
One of our greatest challenges here in America is that pogressives don't always stand with the progressive Muslims because in the interest… — Asra Nomani Copy Share Image
What we are saying is we have to be smart about the ideology that is putting this idea into the world that a woman… — Asra Nomani Copy Share Image
When we think about Islamic feminism, it is not just about women's rights. It's about a more progressive and tolerant expression of Islam in… — Asra Nomani Copy Share Image
Very interestingly in a movement that I call now the hijab lobby, sadly promulgated by women that some of us refer to as Muslim… — Asra Nomani Copy Share Image
I think that we don't have, here in the Middle East or in Africa, as much threat to our physical and economic livelihood as… — Asra Nomani Copy Share Image
Personally I get so much of my inspiration from women in other countries, so I don't feel like American women are the leaders and… — Asra Nomani Copy Share Image
I was born in 1965. When I grew up in India, there was no expectation that a good Muslim woman wore the headscarf. But… — Asra Nomani Copy Share Image
Talk to me 20 years ago and I had a complete sense of illegitimacy as an American Muslim. I felt like I wasn't authentic.… — Asra Nomani Copy Share Image
There is a fundamental flaw in interpretations of sharia that say a woman or man should be punished for sex outside of marriage — Asra Nomani Copy Share Image
It's true that in a lot of western feminist movements, you see women working singularly from men. Suffragettes and the women's rights movement in… — Asra Nomani Copy Share Image
The hijab or a variation of the word shows up eight times in the Quran. And it never means headscarf. And so what's happened… — Asra Nomani Copy Share Image
