Compelling Quote by Tariq Ramadan

Emancipation can only come from within; it cannot be dictated by someone else. A law banning the wearing of headscarves changes nothing, except perhaps…

— Tariq Ramadan

My family is very feminist, and they consider that Islam is not a super feminist religion, which I know people can argue about. But…

— Elif Batuman

What we argue in the piece is that the headscarf has become a political symbol for an ideology of Islam that is exported to…

— Asra Nomani

At the same time women are putting on the headscarf, they are also going to work, to education, increasingly vocal in the media -…

— Munira Mirza

The hijab or a variation of the word shows up eight times in the Quran. And it never means headscarf. And so what's happened…

— Asra Nomani

The demand that Islam makes of women is to not attract attention to yourself, and if you are in a secular society, that attire…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I was born in 1965. When I grew up in India, there was no expectation that a good Muslim woman wore the headscarf. But…

— Asra Nomani

“While I would champion any campaign to support Muslim women who do not wish to cover. I would now also protest vigorously for the…

— Geraldine Brooks

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

“A woman of European heritage sporting a preacher's collar had the opposite effect of a Muslim woman wearing a hijab. She used her privilege…

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“The reason for this correlation is simple: Islam’s Sharia, its way, teaches intolerance and violence against non-Muslims, no less than it teaches that Muslim…

— Raymond Ibrahim

“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