Israel Quotes by Mona Eltahawy

Muslim views are not a monolithic blob.

— Mona Eltahawy

This ISIS group, they attack Muslims more than they attack anyone else.

— Mona Eltahawy

Too many have rushed in to explain the Arab world to itself.

— Mona Eltahawy

Bashar al-Assad's henchmen stomped on the hands of famed Syrian cartoonist Ali Farzat. Our dictators tailor wounds to suit their victims' occupations.

— Mona Eltahawy

For years, successive Arab dictators have tried to keep discontent at bay by distracting people with the Israeli-Arab conflict.

— Mona Eltahawy

Too often, when Muslim women speak out, some in our 'community' accuse us of 'making our men look bad' and of giving…

— Mona Eltahawy

The religious fundamentalists of the Republican party are a mirror image of the religious fundamentalists of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.

— Mona Eltahawy

Saudi Arabia isn't just a conservative country with different values we shouldn't judge. It is a modern Gilead.

— Mona Eltahawy

When Tunisians overthrew Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 29 days and Egyptians Hosni Mubarak in 18 days, it was an appropriate…

— Mona Eltahawy

My birth at the end of July 1967 makes me a child of the naksa, or setback, as the Arab defeat during…

— Mona Eltahawy

I am appalled to hear the defence of the niqab or burka in Europe. A bizarre political correctness has tied the tongues…

— Mona Eltahawy

When we complain to Egypt's Western allies about whichever autocrat is in power, we are asked, 'But who is the alternative?' It…

— Mona Eltahawy

As a Muslim woman, I'm all too familiar with the media shorthand for 'Muslim' and 'woman' equaling Covered in Black Muslim Woman.…

— Mona Eltahawy

Good riddance, Bin Laden - an unwelcome squatter in the house of my religion who tore down all the walls and was…

— Mona Eltahawy

That morning of 11 September 2001, as we watched the twin towers crumble on live television, America and I would develop a…

— Mona Eltahawy

As a feminist of Egyptian and Muslim descent, my life's work has been informed by the belief that religion and culture must…

— Mona Eltahawy

Slavish obedience to the clerics, who know how to squeeze every last drop of advantage out of religion, is killing our girls.…

— Mona Eltahawy

We have been under military rule since 1952, when a group of army officers overthrew Egypt's monarchy and ended Britain's occupation of…

— Mona Eltahawy

Anti-U.S. sentiment has been born out of many grievances - support and weapons for such dictators as Mubarak, unquestionable support for Israel…

— Mona Eltahawy

The price of toppling Gadhafi will be steep. But Libyans will topple him, and in doing so, they will bring down with…

— Mona Eltahawy

President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, like his most recent predecessors Mohamed Morsi and Hosni Mubarak, rarely mention the Sinai Peninsula other than to…

— Mona Eltahawy

To write about the hijab is to step into a minefield. Even among those who share my cultural and faith background, opinions…

— Mona Eltahawy

The Tunisian revolution left every Arab dictator in fear; Egypt's toppling of Mubarak left them terrified - even one of the U.S.'…

— Mona Eltahawy

I wore the hijab - a form of dress that comprises a head scarf and usually also clothing that covers the whole…

— Mona Eltahawy

Some forms of veil are justified by the idea that you're not tempting men. Well how about men just behaving and keeping…

— Mona Eltahawy

I'm no fan of Sarkozy, but I support a ban on face veils because they erase women from society and are promoted…

— Mona Eltahawy

When Mubarak does die, he will be remembered as the most bland of those military men turned dictators: compare him with Gamal…

— Mona Eltahawy

For years I looked at the Iranians with envy - not at the outcome of their 1979 revolution, but because it was…

— Mona Eltahawy

I detest the niqab and the burka for their erasure of women and for dangerously equating piety with that disappearance - the…

— Mona Eltahawy