By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive – and that precludes everything.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANLook 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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Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.
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When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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Modernity is not about dress codes.
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I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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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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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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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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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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Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
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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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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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I don’t lose sleep over failures. I worry about the successes and how they can be replicated.
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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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Being queen is overrated.
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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.
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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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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.
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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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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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Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you.
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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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The hardest [part] is some of the misperceptions that are leveled against me as a person and against Muslim women.
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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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I don’t believe there is a clash between cultures. I believe there is a clash between perceptions of each other.
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