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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Western man declares that in order to be beautiful, a woman must look 14 years old. If she dares to look 50, or worse, 60, she is beyond the pale. By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility.
- Conflict
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- Nov 07, 2020
If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there is one thing that the women and men of the late 20th century who have an awareness and enjoyment of history can be sure of, it is that Islam was not sent from Heaven to foster egotism and mediocrity.
- Captivating
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- Nov 07, 2020
Morocco is such a beautiful place. It's incredibly beautiful. And also it is captivating place because for a writer, you feel that you make impact. I mean, when I write something in the press, the day after in the fish market, people will be discussing it.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone else is going to read for me or go at my place to the mosque, and/or to tell me you shouldn't take anything from the West because the West is the enemy and so on. It is to me to decide. I am intelligent enough to be critical towards the West and take what I need and reject what is bad for me.
- Nov 07, 2020
You find in the Koran hundreds of verses to support women's rights, and perhaps four or five that do not.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
So much of Islam is Judeo-Christianity. It's impossible to divorce them. Islam is 600 years after Christ. Thousands of years after Judaism. Christ, Moses, Abraham - they are all in the Koran.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Educated women armed with computers have defeated extremists by denying them a monopoly to define cultural identity and interpret religious texts. No extremist can say that women are inferior to men without being made a laughingstock on Al Jazeera. Islam insisted on equality between everyone.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There, they tell me to wear the veil. Here, they are telling me to put my hips in a little girl's skirt, and I am this lovely full woman. You've got this Ph.D. and you're worrying, 'Am I skinny enough?'
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man could have accepted me because I am too rebellious. It would have been catastrophe. I am too into my own thing.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
The woman with dark hair, wide hips, and a few extra pounds has always been the essence of beauty in Morocco.
- Hot
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- Nov 07, 2020