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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1709b75 | With this assertion, many mainstream Muslims wash their hands of the twin brutalities that shape the lives of perhaps a quarter of the women of Islam. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 993ee83 | Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| e36cb9b | the truth from his ears, waxed strong. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| de9f59f | So it is, out here on this island, where we dwell with our faces to the sea and our backs to the wilderness. Like Adam's family after the fall, we all have things to do. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| bec549d | Perhaps the giver of the name had meant to trick Cheepi, the devil-god, into thinking him unloved and therefore leaving him alone. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 6fef99f | Mental cruelty, nondisfiguring physical abuse or just plain unhappiness are rarely considered grounds on which a woman can seek divorce. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| d9c226f | the man who has been wealthy is dunned more civilly than the fellow who has ever been poor. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 68ade79 | Janis Karpinski and a few of the instructors fasted all day along with their troops. "I wanted to show solidarity with them, but I also wanted to know exactly what their physical condition was. If" -- | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 220f4a1 | They were all men, all middle-aged, all of a type: intelligent and elitist, yet deferential to the point of groveling before the king. The | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 03b4a81 | Politics needs a certain mental ability," explained Ahmad Saati, the university's spokesman. "Very few women have this kind of mind." I" | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 6bbf876 | Rehab had been cursed indeed. There was no way Mohamed could have raised the money to buy his secret stash of gold without scrimping on his family. I imagined the lies he'd told, as he denied her every little luxury. Four years of privation: the punishment for having only a daughter. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 9e138fe | if her husband and children are suffering from her absence or her preoccupation with politics, then this is not Islam." It" | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| e810678 | It astonished me that Muslims, who put such store on emulation of their prophet, didn't wish to emulate him in something so fundamental as fathering daughters. Muhammad | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| a02216a | In either culture, women somehow managed to get the wrong end of the stick. Women bear the brunt of fending off social disorder in the Catholic | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| e8822a5 | One program that deplored the high incidence of wife beating drew hundreds of letters from angry men, who insisted that beating their wives was a God-given right. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| ae8b50e | fundamentalists asked that a male answer questions directed to her, on the grounds that a woman's voice is too alluring to be heard in mixed company. Nadia | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| c5e2d71 | In fact, the majlis was an intensely feudal scene, with respectful subjects waiting humbly for a few seconds' opportunity to whisper in their prince's ear. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| cace699 | A scandal had traditionally been an easy way to dispose of an inconvenient woman. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| f39b97b | asked how, if he never had spoken before to women outside his family, he was able to serve as spiritual counselor to the village women. My friend looked at me strangely. "They put their problems to him through their husbands, of course," he said. "But what if their husband is their problem?" That possibility hadn't crossed either man's mind." | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| eaaed42 | The old man was appalled by the prospect of women driving. He clapped a bony hand to his heart and gazed heavenward: "I hope I never see it in my lifetime," he said." | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| a99c957 | To the gnarled old imam, sending his daughters out of the home--to walk in the streets, even if veiled, to sit among strangers, even if all girls--was wicked. His | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| e3265e6 | the dangerous female body that somehow, in Muslim society, had been made to carry the heavy burden of male honor. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 16bbaee | The women have been told it's written in the Koran that they must do these things," she said. She could tell them it wasn't but, as an outsider and a woman, her word meant little against the word of the village sheik." | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| b3e213a | I've watched them. Watched them walking with this stupid smile on their faces into the biggest risk you can take in this life. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| db5173b | I had begun this journey following him into the hidden corners of his world and here it ended with him crossed over into the brightest heights of mine. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| d5e548e | they knew that what they hoped for from the operation was to safeguard their daughters' chastity, because upon that chastity depended the honor of the girls' fathers and brothers. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| f4fd6c6 | In most Muslim countries women are the custodians of their male relatives' honor. If | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| cdda3a5 | Women, it says, "manufacture men and play a great role in guiding and educating the [new] generation. The" -- | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| e26cfc4 | women had been sent back home, to manufacture male babies and avoid waste in household expenditures. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| aa7c8c3 | No, no," he said. "She can't raise it at all. She may only clap. Women must be very careful of their voices. If" | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 74a4170 | She must not speak in a delicate tone. This is from the Koran. Things begun with a few words will continue to other things. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| e7d82a8 | trouble is, these people don't understand their own culture," said" | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 6e96460 | You can ask for things, but you can't just reach out and take things as if it's your right." A" | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 8db79d7 | This is Islamic dress--but not to them. According to them, the colors in the embroidery are haram. Where | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 3826f94 | Women without their own drivers could get around only at the whim of husbands and sons. Some | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| b747afd | For these women, Hamas's view of women was laughable. And since they couldn't hear the appeal of such views themselves, they were deaf to the appeal they held for their students. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 7c43be8 | All the women who actually drove were mature professionals who had international drivers' licenses they'd acquired overseas. Many | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 9bc4ebc | They argued that women of the prophet's era had ridden camels, the main mode of transportation of their day. The | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 766bda5 | It was only then that I realized the distance between uncle and nephew wasn't nearly as great as I'd assumed. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| fd3dc5c | From there, the future is a place that looks darker every day. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| ce039f2 | Women of all ages are in-fantilized by the Saudi system. A woman, no matter how old, has to be able to show a signed permission from her husband, son or grandson before she is free to travel, even inside her own country. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 9ec1491 | It's so easy for people like me"--a diplomat's son raised abroad and educated in America--"to be totally off base about this country and what it is ready to accept." | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 4dfefd5 | Such laws can be even more humiliating for older women. A widowed grandmother, for example, may have to rely on the permission of a grandson if he is her closest male relative. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 2764c89 | She'd been married at twelve, before her menarche, and had been pregnant or lactating ever since. | Geraldine Brooks |