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Category Archive: Fatema Mernissi

Fatema Mernissi Quote: “To me, the Quran is a…”

To me, the Quran is a research book.

October 5, 2021 1940, Fatema Mernissi, Moroccan, Quotes by Activists, September 27

Fatema Mernissi Quote: “I go to the hamam and…”

I go to the hamam and put henna on my skin and hair. Even when I go to New York, I let the shower run hot to create a steam hamam at my hotel. But when I finish with the bath, I put on expensive French creams.

August 16, 2021 1940, Fatema Mernissi, Moroccan, Quotes by Activists, September 27

Fatema Mernissi Quote: “Educated women armed with computers have…”

Educated women armed with computers have defeated extremists by denying them a monopoly to define cultural identity and interpret religious texts. No extremist can say that women are inferior to men without being made a laughingstock on Al Jazeera. Islam insisted on equality between everyone.

July 12, 2021 1940, Fatema Mernissi, Moroccan, Quotes by Activists, September 27

Fatema Mernissi Quote: “The Taliban is the Muslim version…”

The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.

June 27, 2021 1940, Fatema Mernissi, Moroccan, Quotes by Activists, September 27

Fatema Mernissi Quote: “I was amazed to realize that…”

I was amazed to realize that for many Westerners, Scheherezade was considered a lovely but simple-minded entertainer, someone who relates innocuous tales and dresses fabulously. In our part of the world, Scheherezade is perceived as a courageous heroine and is one of our rare female mythological figures.

May 16, 2021 1940, Fatema Mernissi, Moroccan, Quotes by Activists, September 27

Fatema Mernissi Quote: “There, they tell me to wear…”

There, they tell me to wear the veil. Here, they are telling me to put my hips in a little girl’s skirt, and I am this lovely full woman. You’ve got this Ph.D. and you’re worrying, ‘Am I skinny enough?’

March 13, 2021 1940, Fatema Mernissi, Moroccan, Quotes by Activists, September 27

Fatema Mernissi Quote: “So much of Islam is Judeo-Christianity….”

So much of Islam is Judeo-Christianity. It’s impossible to divorce them. Islam is 600 years after Christ. Thousands of years after Judaism. Christ, Moses, Abraham – they are all in the Koran.

March 12, 2021 1940, Fatema Mernissi, Moroccan, Quotes by Activists, September 27

Fatema Mernissi Quote: “While Muslim men describe themselves as…”

While Muslim men describe themselves as insecure in their harems, real or imagined, Westerners describe themselves as self-assured heroes with no fears of women. The tragic dimension so present in Muslim harems – fear of women and male self-doubt – is missing in the Western harem.

February 6, 2021 1940, Fatema Mernissi, Moroccan, Quotes by Activists, September 27

Fatema Mernissi Quote: “The waves of religion based on…”

The waves of religion based on terrorism in the 1990s are based on the tormented response of a mutilated Muslim society whose progressive forces have been savagely emasculated. Why on earth is the Arab world so hostile to women? Why can it not see women as a force for development?

November 17, 2020 1940, Fatema Mernissi, Moroccan, Quotes by Activists, September 27

Fatema Mernissi Quote: “To understand the fanatic rejection of…”

To understand the fanatic rejection of women’s liberation in the Muslim world, one has to take into account the time factor. Most of us educated women have illiterate mothers. The conservative wave against women in the Muslim world is a defense mechanism against profound changes in both sex roles and the touchy subject of sexual identity.

November 8, 2020 1940, Fatema Mernissi, Moroccan, Quotes by Activists, September 27

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