I was born in 1965. When I grew up in India, there was no expectation that a good Muslim woman wore the headscarf. But what happened when I came here to the U.S. and the emergence of the Saudi and Iranian theologies in the world is that the headscarf became the hijab and the hijab is now the idea that is synonymous with headscarf.
There is a fundamental flaw in interpretations of sharia that say a woman or man should be punished for sex outside of marriage. - Asra Nomani
There is a fundamental flaw in interpretations of sharia that say a woman or man should be punished for sex outside of marriage.
- Asra Nomani
What we argue in the piece is that the headscarf has become a political symbol for an ideology of Islam that is exported to the world by the theocrac… - Asra Nomani
What we argue in the piece is that the headscarf has become a political symbol for an ideology of Islam that is exported to the world by the theocrac…
You celebrate a person's life by living your life fully. - Asra Nomani
You celebrate a person's life by living your life fully.
Very interestingly in a movement that I call now the hijab lobby, sadly promulgated by women that some of us refer to as Muslim mean girls and their … - Asra Nomani
Very interestingly in a movement that I call now the hijab lobby, sadly promulgated by women that some of us refer to as Muslim mean girls and their …
One of our greatest challenges here in America is that pogressives don't always stand with the progressive Muslims because in the interest of freedom… - Asra Nomani
One of our greatest challenges here in America is that pogressives don't always stand with the progressive Muslims because in the interest of freedom…
We're talking about everybody's free right to have choice. And so what we're also getting are interesting messages like you really need to obey the c… - Asra Nomani
We're talking about everybody's free right to have choice. And so what we're also getting are interesting messages like you really need to obey the c…
I was born in 1965. When I grew up in India, there was no expectation that a good Muslim woman wore the headscarf. But what happened when I came here… - Asra Nomani
I was born in 1965. When I grew up in India, there was no expectation that a good Muslim woman wore the headscarf. But what happened when I came here…
What we are saying is we have to be smart about the ideology that is putting this idea into the world that a woman must be defined by her idea of mod… - Asra Nomani
What we are saying is we have to be smart about the ideology that is putting this idea into the world that a woman must be defined by her idea of mod…
The hijab or a variation of the word shows up eight times in the Quran. And it never means headscarf. And so what's happened is that the identity of … - Asra Nomani
The hijab or a variation of the word shows up eight times in the Quran. And it never means headscarf. And so what's happened is that the identity of …
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