Arabia Quote by Dalia Mogahed

Wahhabism goes and takes elements from the Islamic tradition that are most oppressive of women, and highlights and enlarges them and makes them the…

— Khaled Abou El Fadl

The situation of women living in Islam-stricken societies and under Islamic laws is the outrage of the 21st century. Burqa-clad and veiled women and…

— Maryam Namazie

I realised it is impossible to live with the rules they give Saudi women. Just impossible. You trying to do everything by the book,…

— Manal al-Sharif

“Women, on the other hand, were easy targets. Any time things started to go wrong in the Middle East, women suffered for it first.…

— Geraldine Brooks

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

“With this assertion, many mainstream Muslims wash their hands of the twin brutalities that shape the lives of perhaps a quarter of the women…

— Geraldine Brooks

“the dangerous female body that somehow, in Muslim society, had been made to carry the heavy burden of male honor.”

— Geraldine Brooks

“The devout Islamic woman becomes the antithesis of a certain kind of strident right-wing feminist.”

— Nina Power

Saudi Arabia has supported Wahhabi madrasas in poor countries in Africa and Asia, exporting extremism and intolerance. Saudi Arabia also exports instability with its…

— Nicholas Kristof

That is life for a Saudi woman: wherever we go, whatever we achieve, we are the property of a man.

— Manal al-Sharif

The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable. All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now…

— Sam Harris

“She snorts when she sees a man in the traditional Emirati white robe, the candoura, indulging himself in a glass of something clearly haraam,…

— Ameera Al Hakawati