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We heard from a professor at an evangelical college who wore a hijab in solidarity with Muslim women. Now we have a different perspective. Asra Nomani co-wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post titled in part "As Muslim Women, We Actually Ask You Not To Wear The Hijab." -- Ari Shapiro
Many times I have asked Muslim women not to nurture the victim mentality. stand up for your rights -- Tariq Ramadan
I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me. -- Queen Rania of Jordan
We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak to Muslim women who might be intimidated by men. -- Jane Harman
The discriminations that are found in the Muslim majority countries are more Cultural than Islamic. .... I have always said to the Muslim women, please do not nurture the victim mentality. Stand up for your rights. -- Tariq Ramadan
I, as a Muslim woman living in 1993, I want to have two things - the mosque and the satellite, both at the same time. And no one can mutilate me by telling me I cannot have the mosque or the Koran. -- Fatema Mernissi
To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction. -- Randa Abdel-Fattah
Betty's a good Muslim woman and wife. I don't imagine many other women might put up with the way I am. Awakening this brainwashed black man and telling this arrogant, devilish white man the truth about himself, Betty understands, is a full-time job -- Malcolm X
I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam. -- King Hussein I
If they (Muslim women) wish to cover their faces and isolate themselves from the rest of the community and so thoroughly reject our culture then I cannot imagine why they want to be here at all. Perhaps they should just push off back to their own countries. -- Norman Tebbit
Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control. -- Randa Abdel-Fattah
Before I became a Muslim, I ate pork and chased women--but all that stuff stopped. -- Muhammad Ali
I learned there's a tremendous amount of sisterhood among Muslim women, which I thought was really beautiful. -- Nia Long
The hardest [part] is some of the misperceptions that are leveled against me as a person and against Muslim women. -- Queen Rania of Jordan
Those people who kill women, children, and defenseless civilians are about as Muslim as mass murderer Christopher Columbus was a Christian. -- Immortal Technique
It is all too easy to draw conclusions and make sweeping judgments about millions of Muslim women based on fleeting television images. That is not right. -- Queen Rania of Jordan
Al-Qa'idah is in favour of armed jihad only against those infidel countries, which are killing innocent Muslim men, women, and children just because they are Muslims. -- Osama bin Laden
Just like in Christianity or Buddhism, obviously there are certain practices that dictate one's life, but I don't think you can say all Muslim women are a certain way. -- Nia Long

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