Israel Quotes by Asra Nomani

11 Israel quotes by Asra Nomani

Asra Nomani brings her distinctive voice to the topic of Israel in these eleven excerpts. The collection, while compact, highlights the key points she raises, offering readers a quick yet informative glimpse into her analysis and concerns.

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Very interestingly in a movement that I call now the hijab lobby, sadly promulgated by women that some of us refer to…

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The hijab or a variation of the word shows up eight times in the Quran. And it never means headscarf. And so…

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What we argue in the piece is that the headscarf has become a political symbol for an ideology of Islam that is…

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I was born in 1965. When I grew up in India, there was no expectation that a good Muslim woman wore the…

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Personally I get so much of my inspiration from women in other countries, so I don't feel like American women are the…

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When we think about Islamic feminism, it is not just about women's rights. It's about a more progressive and tolerant expression of…

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One of our greatest challenges here in America is that pogressives don't always stand with the progressive Muslims because in the interest…

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I think that we don't have, here in the Middle East or in Africa, as much threat to our physical and economic…

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It's true that in a lot of western feminist movements, you see women working singularly from men. Suffragettes and the women's rights…

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What we are saying is we have to be smart about the ideology that is putting this idea into the world that…

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Talk to me 20 years ago and I had a complete sense of illegitimacy as an American Muslim. I felt like I…

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