Israel Quotes by Geraldine Brooks

“In most Muslim countries women are the custodians of their male relatives’ honor. If”

— Geraldine Brooks

“What the extremists were doing was entirely contrary to the Koran, which excoriates anyone who impugns a woman’s reputation and sentences them…

— Geraldine Brooks

“With this assertion, many mainstream Muslims wash their hands of the twin brutalities that shape the lives of perhaps a quarter of…

— Geraldine Brooks

“one in five Muslim girls lives today in a community that sanctions some sort of interference with her genitals.”

— Geraldine Brooks

“In Muslim societies men’s bodies just weren’t seen as posing the same kind of threat to social stability as women’s. Getting”

— Geraldine Brooks

“This is Islamic dress—but not to them. According to them, the colors in the embroidery are haram. Where”

— Geraldine Brooks

September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent…

— Geraldine Brooks

“if her husband and children are suffering from her absence or her preoccupation with politics, then this is not Islam.” It”

— Geraldine Brooks

And one of the things that I learned was you can't generalise at all about a woman in a veil. You can't…

— Geraldine Brooks

“The women have been told it’s written in the Koran that they must do these things,” she said. She could tell them…

— Geraldine Brooks

“In any case, the manifesto states that a Jew is without honour from the day of his birth. That he cannot differentiate…

— Geraldine Brooks

And when I'd be reporting in Israel, Palestinians would say, the Jews they're not like us, and the Jews would say the…

— Geraldine Brooks

“The Bedouin was troubled by a familiar bundle of Middle Eastern bogeys: America in general and the CIA in particular; Jews, or…

— Geraldine Brooks

...The hagaddah came to Sarajevo for a reason. It was here to test us, to see if there were people who could…

— Geraldine Brooks

“The laws of the Islamic state would be derived first from the Koran. But since only about six hundred of its six…

— Geraldine Brooks

“While I would champion any campaign to support Muslim women who do not wish to cover. I would now also protest vigorously…

— Geraldine Brooks

“Until Islam’s articulate spokeswomen such as Rana Kabbani target their misguided coreligionists with the fervor they expend on outside critics, the grave…

— Geraldine Brooks