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Muslim women must stand up and speak out about who we are, what we believe and where we are going. I think we need to know that our counterparts in the west are also willing to listen and reciprocate.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Modernity is not about dress codes.
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Code Dress Dresses Modernity
Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you.
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Protect Shields Throw
Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
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Changing Future Girl World
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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Everything Goal Lines Precludes Self
I don’t believe that there is fair enough understanding of either our status as women or the total context of our lives, which is very rich and multi-faceted.
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Believe Rich Understanding
Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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Exclusive Modernity Religion
The youth are the catalysts for real change.
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Catalyst Real Youth
There are so many misperceptions and stereotypes out there that I would love to see clarified one day.
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Day Misperception One Stereotype
The hardest [part] is some of the misperceptions that are leveled against me as a person and against Muslim women.
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Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don’t get to express myself creatively through my official duties.
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Clothes Creative Expression
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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Expressison Home Husband Personal Son
When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it’s not common sense yet.
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Common Sense Girl Moral
For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
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Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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Course Democracy Process
My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, ‘I wish I could do that.’
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Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.
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