Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANReligion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I’d rather not focus on that.
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I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women’s empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.
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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.
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Of course, I tweet. Tweeting is a very personal form of expression. Who else could talk about my son refusing to wear a suit to meet the Pope, my husband flying a helicopter, or take a twitpic from our home?
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I don’t think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad.
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I don’t lose sleep over failures. I worry about the successes and how they can be replicated.
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Look at any country that’s plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society’s ills.
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I’m amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.
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The youth are the catalysts for real change.
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There are so many misperceptions and stereotypes out there that I would love to see clarified one day.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive – and that precludes everything.
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We look at problems happening halfway across the world and we think, ‘Well, that’s their problem.’ But it’s not. … When you solve somebody else’s problem, you’re solving a problem for yourself because our world today is so interconnected.
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At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It’s really your essence and your values that are important.
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We shouldn’t judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
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