Arab Humanist Quotes

“I couldn’t live with someone who wasn’t generous to himself and his loved ones. It isn’t that there aren’t stingy Arabs. I personally know many of them. But when you find generous Arabs, they are abundantly generous, like no other people on earth, even if they are poor.”
― Nohad A Nassif, Arab Humanist: The Necessity of Basic Income

“I finally understood what it meant to be poor, not educated enough, and homeless in America. It was similar to being in a war zone, filled with desperation and tragedy.”
― Nohad A Nassif, Arab Humanist: The Necessity of Basic Income

“Why, when we’re living in the most prosperous, wealthiest, and freest nation on earth, should the poor be concerned with the basics like food, shelter, safety, and especially belonging? Poor and uneducated people are not worthless. There is no nation that has gotten rich without its poor, uneducated people’s hard work. If a nation is greedy enough not to give back to them, it will lose its most loyal and giving contributors.”
― Nohad A Nassif, Arab Humanist: The Necessity of Basic Income

“Purity culture dominated my mind, as well as all the minds of the people I knew. Angels don’t exist, but if one is found, she must have been brainwashed, pressured, coerced or abused into becoming one. A female angel is always created by someone else’s patriarchal fantasies.”
― Nohad A Nassif, Arab Humanist: The Necessity of Basic Income

“For those religious friends who told me that their veil was empowering to them, I say, “How selfish of you! When all Muslim women, including women in Lebanon, Iran, Saudi Arabia and other parts of the Muslim world have the right to choose not to cover without being reprehended, beaten, imprisoned or even in some cases killed, then I will agree with you. Until that day comes, when all Muslim women are free to choose for themselves, veiling is undeniably disempowering to women.”
― Nohad A Nassif, Arab Humanist: The Necessity of Basic Income

“The Hijab was the most unattractive thing ever, especially for women who didn’t have a gorgeous face to make up for it. Not fair. My brother would never be troubled with such a loss of identity or attractiveness in order to please God.”
― Nohad A Nassif, Arab Humanist: The Necessity of Basic Income