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Censorship in all its forms must be challenged.

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Topics: Censorship Challenged Forms Must

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Extremist movements are driven by their inability to tolerate the basic human fact of pluralism. They refuse to accept the natural cultural and religious diversity of our world, seeking to impose their own beliefs and behaviours as a universal pattern for humanity.

~Deeyah Khan

Topics: Accept Basic Beliefs Cultural Diversity Driven Extremist Fact Human Humanity Impose Inability Movements Natural Our Our World Own Pattern Pluralism Refuse Religious Seeking Tolerate Universal World

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We need to be able to guarantee the safety of all artists and activists for human rights so that it no longer takes extraordinary courage to call for a better world - so that every person with the ability to imagine peace, equality, progress, and justice can express their dreams and hopes without fear.

~Deeyah Khan

Topics: Ability Able Activists Artists Better Better World Call Courage Dreams Equality Every Express Extraordinary Fear Guarantee Hopes Human Human Rights Imagine Justice Longer Need Peace Person Progress Rights Safety Takes Without World

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We need more courageous individuals who will defy the structures of power, whether political, economic, or intimate, but we also need it to be safe for people to feel their power and to be able to express their ideas and imagine without fear.

~Deeyah Khan

Topics: Able Also Courageous Defy Economic Express Fear Feel Ideas Imagine Individuals Intimate More Need People Political Power Safe Structures Whether Who Will Without

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The Trump phenomenon shows us how much fear of Muslims there is out there and how easily it can be exploited.

~Deeyah Khan

Topics: Easily Exploited Fear How How Much Much Muslims Out Phenomenon Shows Trump Us

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Muslim women can save the world from ISIS.

~Deeyah Khan

Topics: Muslim Save Save The World Women World

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Some Muslim children, both male and female, have little choice in who to marry, what to study, what their careers will be, and who they can socialise with. Their lives are constrained under the expectations of family 'honour.'

~Deeyah Khan

Topics: Both Careers Children Choice Constrained Expectations Family Female Honour Little Lives Male Marry Muslim Some Study Who Will

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There is no psychiatric pattern which can predict who becomes an extremist - but they are all frustrated with their reality.

~Deeyah Khan

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Many Muslim parents are authoritarian, which leaves young men and women with limited spaces to express themselves. Self-expression and autonomy are regarded as symptoms of 'Westernisation.'

~Deeyah Khan

Topics: Authoritarian Autonomy Express Leaves Limited Many Men Men And Women Muslim Parents Regarded Self-Expression Spaces Symptoms Themselves Which Women Young Young Men

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Within a life that seems uncomfortably scripted by family and community pressures, hyper-religiosity can provide a way to break with parental expectations and flee from parental control.

~Deeyah Khan

Topics: Break Community Control Expectations Family Flee Life Parental Pressures Provide Scripted Seems Way Within

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Biography

Nationality: Norwegian

Type: Director

Born: August 7th, 1977

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