Appearance Quote by Tariq Ramadan

Compelling a woman to wear a headscarf is against Islam, and compelling her to remove it is against human rights.

— 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

“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

“[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

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

Every religion curbs women rights to some extent. Some countries acted against religions and put a ban on wearing hijab, which was also a…

— Asma Jahangir

There are some societies where women are not even allowed to drive a car, and that restriction is based in the name of religion…

— Asma Jahangir

For me emancipation will only be truly reached if a woman can wear makeup and skirts without having her abilities doubted as a result.

— Kristina Schroder

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

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

How can you respect a religion that forces women into polygamous marriages, mutilates their genitals, forbids them to drive cars and subjects them to…

— Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood

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