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- I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned English.
- I'd like Muslims to look at their religion as a set of beliefs that they can appraise critically and pick and choose from.
- In April 2006, a Dutch court ordered that I leave my safe-home that I was renting from the State. The judge concluded that my neighbors…
- It was Friday, July 24, 1992, when I stepped on the train. Every year I think of it. I see it as my real birthday:…
- The veil deliberately marks women as private and restricted property, nonpersons. The veil sets women apart from men and apart from the world; it restrains…
- We must reclaim and retake feminism from our fellow idiotic women.
- As a woman you are better off in life earning your own money. You couldn't prevent your husband from leaving you or taking another wife,…
- ...Bin Laden's quotes from the Quaran resonated in my brain: "When you meet the unbelievers, strike them in the neck." "If you do not go…
- Over the course of my life, I have made many transitions - most of them taking me further away from my Somali roots and steadily…
- I talk about a Christianity that is enlightened enough to separate spirituality from the rest of life. Not just church and state, but knowledge and…
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