Unveiled Quotes

“Citizens who do not cover their faces have the right to know who they are interacting with. What about their rights? The face veil is an insult to those who do not conceal their identity in public. In effect it says: “I have the right to know who you are but you don’t have the right to know who I am.”
― Farzana Hassan, Unveiled: A Canadian Muslim Woman’s Struggle Against Misogyny, Sharia and Jihad

“we must never tolerate the abuse of multiculturalism, and the type of political correctness that turns a blind eye to misogyny is just that sort of abuse.”
― Farzana Hassan, Unveiled: A Canadian Muslim Woman’s Struggle Against Misogyny, Sharia and Jihad

“Indeed the impracticality of the burka marginalizes its wearers, and a society that allows such marginalization risks being perceived as dysfunctional.”
― Farzana Hassan, Unveiled: A Canadian Muslim Woman’s Struggle Against Misogyny, Sharia and Jihad

“I knew at once that even burka-clad women were not convinced that they had to wear it; it has just become a political tool.”
― Farzana Hassan, Unveiled: A Canadian Muslim Woman’s Struggle Against Misogyny, Sharia and Jihad

“All this was part of the larger issue of whether Islam was indeed misogynistic”
― Farzana Hassan, Unveiled: A Canadian Muslim Woman’s Struggle Against Misogyny, Sharia and Jihad

“The idea of honour is rooted in the medieval notion that men own women, and that men are therefore responsible for the conduct of “their” women. The supervision of women in patriarchal societies of the Middle East produces callousness, cold-hearted”
― Farzana Hassan, Unveiled: A Canadian Muslim Woman’s Struggle Against Misogyny, Sharia and Jihad

“They implied that culture, independent of religion, was more to blame for the misfortunes of women.”
― Farzana Hassan, Unveiled: A Canadian Muslim Woman’s Struggle Against Misogyny, Sharia and Jihad

“works of Maryam Jamilah, a convert to Islam from Judaism. She had chosen to live as a co-wife to an assistant to Maulana Maududi, the prominent Pakistani commentator on the Quran. Jamilah argued that the Islamic version of gender equity greatly benefits society. Others, like Fatima Mernissi, had previously argued that Islam clearly discriminated against women. Look at polygamy, wife-beating and the segregation of women, she implored.”
― Farzana Hassan, Unveiled: A Canadian Muslim Woman’s Struggle Against Misogyny, Sharia and Jihad