Islam Quote by Geraldine Brooks

Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a…

— Azar Nafisi

For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as part of a western ploy.

— Azar Nafisi

In some extreme cases, women are constrained by what can only be described as pre-Islamic, misogynistic approaches to the role of women in society.…

— Queen Noor of Jordan

My hopes for Iran's future lies with women first and foremost. Iran's feminist movement is very strong. This movement has no leader or head…

— Shirin Ebadi

“as in the Islamic Republic of Iran, where large numbers of women turned out during the June 2009 post-election demonstrations. Clearly, these women’s grievances…

— Robert Spencer

“But females in even the most advanced Muslim countries are simply, by law, not the equal of men.”

— Bill Maher

These words that you have heard regarding women in the future Islamic government are all hostile propaganda. In the Islamic Republic women have complete…

— Ayatollah Khomeini

But since the end of the 1970s, at the beginning of the revolution in Iran under Khomenei, we have experienced a politicization of Islam.…

— Alice Schwarzer

Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past.

— Azar Nafisi

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

In the past 30 years, officials of the Iranian regime and its apologists have labeled criticism, especially with regard to women's rights, as anti-Islamic…

— Azar Nafisi

“More than Iran's enemies need artillery, guns, and so forth, they need to spread cultural values that lead to moral corruption... a senior official…

— Anonymous