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Asra Nomani

(1965) Journalist

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Asra Nomani is a journalist.

Quick Facts About Asra Nomani

Born: January 1, 1965
Profession: Journalist

About Asra Nomani

[Wikidata] American journalist (born 1965)... | [Wikipedia] Asra Quratulain Nomani is an Indian American journalist and author. Born in India to Muslim parents, she earned a BA from West Virginia University in liberal arts in 1986 and an MA from the American University in international communications in 1990. She subsequently worked as a correspondent for Th

Quotes by Asra Nomani

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

Arabia

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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…

Challenges

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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…

Choices

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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…

Daughter

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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…

Academic

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We don't believe we are too sexy for our hair.

Believe

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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…

Born

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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…

Accepting

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There is a fundamental flaw in interpretations of sharia that say a woman or man should be punished for sex outside of…

Flaws

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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…

Assumption

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You celebrate a person's life by living your life fully.

Celebrate

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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…

Assumption

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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…

Challenges

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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…

17th century

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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…

Caution

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Asra Nomani by topic

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