Book Quote by Taslima Nasrin

I can quote you lots of chapters in verse from the bible that are terrible for women. But you can use the bible to…

— Swanee Hunt

I've read the Bible, but I felt like a lot of the Bible was oppressive towards women. Then I read the Quran, and I…

— Robert Webb

The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable. All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now…

— Sam Harris

I am always revolted when Islamic leaders, from Afghanistan or elsewhere, deny the very existence of female oppression, avoid the issue by pointing to…

— Khaled Hosseini

“It is not Islam that oppresses Muslim women, it is the lack of knowledge or the lack of application of that knowledge that oppresses.”

— Na'ima B. Robert

In some extreme cases, women are constrained by what can only be described as pre-Islamic, misogynistic approaches to the role of women in society.…

— Queen Noor of Jordan

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 Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a long way…

— Hamza Yusuf

Part of me has always resisted the Western clichéd image of Muslim women, depicting them as nothing more than silent victims. My art, without…

— Shirin Neshat

“That’s not the whole of it. As with many other faiths—including our own Christian one—a small group of zealots have distorted Islam to further…

— Matthew Reilly

Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women.…

— Jello Biafra

I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic…

— Taslima Nasrin