Arrest Quote by Phyllis Chesler

If a woman is wearing the burqa, it's not her wish. It's more that she feels secure from the Taliban, secure from acid if…

— Malina Suliman

“He fished a sky blue burqa from the bag. The yards of pleated cloth spilled over his knees when he lifted it. He rolled…

— Khaled Hosseini

“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

“Does it really make a difference to the victims whether the terrorists wear Bedouin robes and headgear, or Brooks Brothers suits and Rolex watches?”

— Joseph Befumo

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

“Tell me how they will no longer have to hide beneath burkas. How you will wrap them in lace ‘til they are all as…

— Andrea Gibson

“Why, Islam is nothing but an easy sort of exercise, I thought. Hot-weather yoga for the Bedouins. Arenas without sweat, heaven without strain,”

— Yann Martel

A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

— Eudora Welty

“A Rule: Life without Islam is a naked tree, Birds without trees can never feel free.”

— Leena Ahmad Almashat

I detest the niqab and the burka for their erasure of women and for dangerously equating piety with that disappearance - the less of…

— Mona Eltahawy

“To the gnarled old imam, sending his daughters out of the home—to walk in the streets, even if veiled, to sit among strangers, even…

— Geraldine Brooks

The burqa is a way of controlling the woman, but in the name of respect. Every culture or religion gives a different name for…

— Malina Suliman