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The king has passed a law for women who go to high school, but not for average people in the countryside.

— Nadia Yassine Our Religion Is Friendly to Women (2007)

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The history of the women's movement in the West has unfolded completely differently from here.

Our Religion Is Friendly to Women (2007)

Many in the West believe Arab societies must automatically be despotic, but that is not true.

Our Religion Is Friendly to Women (2007)

Our religion is much more capable of solving social problems than Western models that only benefit the elite.

Our Religion Is Friendly to Women (2007)

This alliance should develop a new constitution, which no longer serves the autocracy.

Our Religion Is Friendly to Women (2007)

But the men, these little machos, have robbed us of that. It's their fault that the whole world believes the opposite.

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