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Category Archive: Fatema Mernissi

Fatema Mernissi Quote: “In Morocco, for a woman to…”

In Morocco, for a woman to earn her own living is the essential concern.

November 4, 2019 1940, Fatema Mernissi, Moroccan, Quotes by Activists, September 27

Fatema Mernissi Quote: “In Islamic societies, politicians can manipulate…”

In Islamic societies, politicians can manipulate almost everything. But thus far, no fundamentalist leader has been able to convince his supporters to renounce Islam’s central virtue – the principle of strict equality between human beings, regardless of sex, race, or creed.

August 11, 2019 1940, Fatema Mernissi, Moroccan, Quotes by Activists, September 27

Fatema Mernissi Quote: “One cannot understand what’s happening to…”

One cannot understand what’s happening to women in the Middle East if they don’t realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.

June 27, 2019 1940, Fatema Mernissi, Moroccan, Quotes by Activists, September 27

Fatema Mernissi Quote: “If, by chance, you were to…”

If, by chance, you were to meet me at the Casablanca airport or on a boat sailing from Tangiers, you would think me self-confident, but I am not. Even now, at my age, I am frightened when crossing borders because I am afraid of failing to understand strangers.

May 9, 2019 1940, Fatema Mernissi, Moroccan, Quotes by Activists, September 27

Fatema Mernissi Quote: “The modern Muslim state has never…”

The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.

May 5, 2019 1940, Fatema Mernissi, Moroccan, Quotes by Activists, September 27

Fatema Mernissi Quote: “Sharia law does not exist in…”

Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.

April 25, 2019 1940, Fatema Mernissi, Moroccan, Quotes by Activists, September 27

Fatema Mernissi Quote: “Someone else is going to read…”

Someone else is going to read for me or go at my place to the mosque, and/or to tell me you shouldn’t take anything from the West because the West is the enemy and so on. It is to me to decide. I am intelligent enough to be critical towards the West and take what I need and reject what is bad for me.

March 26, 2019 1940, Fatema Mernissi, Moroccan, Quotes by Activists, September 27

Fatema Mernissi Quote: “There has been a terrible hemorrhage…”

There has been a terrible hemorrhage of educated women to the West where they can flourish. I understand, but it is terrible. We must stay home.

February 12, 2019 1940, Fatema Mernissi, Moroccan, Quotes by Activists, September 27

Fatema Mernissi Quote: “Since all power from the seventh…”

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.

January 31, 2019 1940, Fatema Mernissi, Moroccan, Quotes by Activists, September 27

Fatema Mernissi Quote: “Women are builders of civil society….”

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.

December 20, 2018 1940, Fatema Mernissi, Moroccan, Quotes by Activists, September 27

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