Farzana Hassan

Human Rights Defender

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Farzana Hassan is a human rights defender.

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Profession: Human Rights Defender

About Farzana Hassan

[Wikidata] author, speaker, & human rights activist... | [Wikipedia] Farzana Hassan, also known as Farzana Hassan Shahid, is a Pakistani-Canadian author, speaker, and human rights activist who focuses on the treatment of Muslim women and has expressed support for banning the burqa. She is a columnist for the Toronto Sun and a former President of the Muslim Canadian C

Quotes by Farzana Hassan

“They implied that culture, independent of religion, was more to blame for the misfortunes of women.”

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Religion

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“we must never tolerate the abuse of multiculturalism, and the type of political correctness that turns a blind eye to misogyny is…

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Blind eye

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“The idea of honour is rooted in the medieval notion that men own women, and that men are therefore responsible for the…

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Middle east

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“Citizens who do not cover their faces have the right to know who they are interacting with. What about their rights? The…

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“works of Maryam Jamilah, a convert to Islam from Judaism. She had chosen to live as a co-wife to an assistant to…

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Islam

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“I knew at once that even burka-clad women were not convinced that they had to wear it; it has just become a…

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“All this was part of the larger issue of whether Islam was indeed misogynistic”

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“Indeed the impracticality of the burka marginalizes its wearers, and a society that allows such marginalization risks being perceived as dysfunctional.”

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