Fatema Mernissi : (3)

" 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. " - Fatema Mernissi

" 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. " - Fatema Mernissi

" Consumerist ads brainwash us into individualist and egotistic self-love. " - Fatema Mernissi