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.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANMuslim 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.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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The hardest [part] is some of the misperceptions that are leveled against me as a person and against Muslim women.
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Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you.
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Being queen is overrated.
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When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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We shouldn’t judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
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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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The youth are the catalysts for real change.
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I don’t know if I’d put labels on myself, but I do feel that when women are empowered, they have the power to transform society.
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Modernity is not about dress codes.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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Social media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone’s rights. It’s where we’re reminded that we’re all human and all equal. It’s where people can find and fight for a cause, global or local, popular or specialized, even when there are hundreds of miles between them.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, ‘I wish I could do that.’
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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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