Arab Quote by Patrick Chappatte

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

To speak of the Muslim world is not to endorse a totalitarian project, nor to bolster an Islamist narrative, nor to suggest that variety,…

— Mehdi Hasan

Muslim women deplore misogyny just as western women do, and they know that Islamic societies also oppress them; why wouldn't they? But liberation, for…

— Katharine Viner

“The Muslim veil, the different sorts of masks and beaks and "burkas", are all gradations of mental slavery. (...) The veil deliberately marks women…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The veil deliberately marks women as private and restricted property, nonpersons. The veil sets women apart from men and apart from the world; it…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“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 abhor the rightwing Muslim ideology behind the veils, but I equally abhor the political rightwing xenophobes of Europe.

— Mona Eltahawy

“When Muslim radicals and fundamentalists look at the West, they see only the openness that makes us, in their eyes, decadent and promiscuous. They…

— Thomas L. Friedman

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

“[L]iberals insist that children should be given the right to remain part of their particular community, but on condition that they are given a…

— Slavoj Žižek

The unimaginable brutality of this latest manifestation of Political Islam in the Arab world is too much to bear for many Muslim Arab

— Hisham Melhem

Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.

— Abdolkarim Soroush