Afghanistan Quote by Jim Mattis

According to what we've been seeing recently in the area where the terrorists control, where they ban people from going to schools, ban young…

— Bashar al-Assad

In a place like Afghanistan where the society is completely segregated, women have access to women. Men cannot always photograph women and cannot get…

— Lynsey Addario

“the majority of women in the Muslim world across the ages, who worked in the fields, did not cover their faces and do not…

— Fred Halliday

I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.

— Salman Rushdie

Did you hear this? They say now Osama bin Laden and his buddy Mullah Omar have left Afghanistan dressed as women. They dressed up…

— David Letterman

Since the 1950s (until the early 1990s), girls in Kabul and other cities attended schools. Half of university students were women, and women made…

— Eleanor Smeal

When the Taliban was ruling Afghanistan, women were not allowed to go to school, to work, or even leave the house without a male…

— Sonita Alizadeh

It's what the Taliban does in Afghanistan, it's what gets done in the Middle East, and it's clearly something that certain mainly conservative groups…

— Anna Quindlen

“When, as happened recently in France, an attempt is made to coerce women out of the burqa rather than creating a situation in which…

— Arundhati Roy

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

The draconian prohibitions of the Taliban years and the gains Afghan women have achieved since the Taliban government was overthrown in 2001 are now…

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

There are reports on the news tonight that members of the Taliban feel persecuted and fear their own safety. So now they know what…

— Jay Leno