Islam Quote by Geraldine Brooks

“Wishful thinking about the peaceful tolerance of Islam cannot interpret away this reality: hands are still cut off, women still stoned and enslaved, just…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“one in five Muslim girls lives today in a community that sanctions some sort of interference with her genitals.”

— Geraldine Brooks

“That’s not the whole of it. As with many other faiths—including our own Christian one—a small group of zealots have distorted Islam to further…

— Matthew Reilly

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

— Farzana Hassan

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

— Nina Power

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

— Geraldine Brooks

The Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a long way…

— Hamza Yusuf

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

— Bill Maher

“Islam is revelant. We just have to make ourselves relevant.”

— Mustafa Davis

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

“In Muslim societies men’s bodies just weren’t seen as posing the same kind of threat to social stability as women’s. Getting”

— Geraldine Brooks

“But that's Islam in the third millennium: they want the certainties of seventh-century society with the conveniences of the twenty-first century.”

— Mark Steyn