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 is that the identity of a Muslim woman especially is being equated to this piece of… — Asra Nomani Copy Share Image
We're talking about everybody's free right to have choice. And so what we're also getting are interesting messages like you really need to obey the command of Allah and put a scarf on your head. And what we caution well-intentioned… — 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
