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Publisher
Picador
Language
English
Description
In 2016, Mariam Khan read that David Cameron had linked the radicalization of Muslim men to the `traditional submissiveness' of Muslim women. Mariam felt pretty sure she didn't know a single Muslim woman who would describe herself that way. Why was she hearing about Muslim women from people who were neither Muslim, nor female? Years later the state of the national discourse has deteriorated even further, and Muslim women's voices are still pushed...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Muslims who explore sources of morality other than Islam are threatened with death, and Muslim women who escape the virgins' cage are branded whores. So asserts Hirsi Ali's meditation on Islam and the role of women, the rights of the individual, the roots of fanaticism, and Western policies toward Islamic countries and immigrant communities. This controversial book is a call to arms for the emancipation of women from religious and cultural oppression...
Author
Publisher
Fortress Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Explores the connections between religion and civil rights activism through an examination of the lives of seven religious African-American women whose related values and early life experiences led them to take up the quest for equality.
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