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The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.

~Fatema Mernissi

Topics: Muslim Taliban Trials Version Witch

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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.

~Fatema Mernissi

Topics: After Also Beautiful Beautiful Place Because Day Discussing Feel Fish Impact Incredibly Make Market Mean Morocco People Place Press Something Will Write Writer You I Write

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Women are builders of civil society. We are the ones who are going to build it. You know why? We have no choice. Either you shut up, and you are humiliated, or you do what I'm doing. You scream.

~Fatema Mernissi

Topics: Build Builders Choice Civil Civil Society Doing Either Going Humiliated Know No Choice Scream Shut Shut Up Society Up Who Why Women Women Are You

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To understand the fanatic rejection of women's liberation in the Muslim world, one has to take into account the time factor. Most of us educated women have illiterate mothers. The conservative wave against women in the Muslim world is a defense mechanism against profound changes in both sex roles and the touchy subject of sexual identity.

~Fatema Mernissi

Topics: Account Against Both Changes Conservative Defense Defense Mechanism Educated Factor Fanatic Identity Illiterate Liberation Mechanism Most Mothers Muslim Muslim World Profound Rejection Roles Sex Sexual Subject Take Time Touchy Understand Us Wave Women World

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The woman with dark hair, wide hips, and a few extra pounds has always been the essence of beauty in Morocco.

~Fatema Mernissi

Topics: Always Beauty Been Dark Dark Hair Essence Extra Few Hair Hips Morocco Pounds Wide Woman

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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.

~Fatema Mernissi

Topics: Al Al Jazeera Armed Being Between Computers Cultural Defeated Define Denying Educated Equality Everyone Extremist Extremists Identity Inferior Insisted Interpret Islam Made Men Monopoly Religious Say Texts Them Without Women Women Are

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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.

~Fatema Mernissi

Topics: Because Conflict Elite Interests Islamic Male Men Modern Muslim Neither Nor Problem Prophet Rights Simply Some Those Tradition Women

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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?'

~Fatema Mernissi

Topics: Am Enough Full Girl Got Here Hips Little Lovely Me Put Skinny Skirt Tell Telling Veil Wear Woman Worrying You I Am

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Consumerist ads brainwash us into individualist and egotistic self-love.

~Fatema Mernissi

Topics: Ads Individualist Self-Love Us

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Since all power from the seventh century on was only legitimated by religion, political forces and economic interests pushed for the fabrication of false traditions.

~Fatema Mernissi

Topics: Century Economic False Forces Interests Only Political Power Pushed Religion Seventh Since Traditions

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Biography

Nationality: Moroccan

Type: Activist

Born: Unknown

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