Headscarves Quotes

• The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns in a political game.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Real, Games, Political

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “Snow”, p.43, Faber & Faber

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• Emancipation can only come from within; it cannot be dictated by someone else. A law banning the wearing of headscarves changes nothing, except perhaps external appearance. Naturally, Islamic feminism must also include the right to education, to work and the freedom to select one's own husband.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Husband, Islamic, Law

  "'They Live in a Bleak, Devastated Universe'". Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. November 14, 2005.

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• My own daughters weren't able to study in Turkey because of their headscarves, so they went to the United States.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Daughter, Turkeys, United States

  "If the EU Doesn't Want Us, They Should Say it Now". Der Spiegel interview, www.nytimes.com. April 16, 2007.

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• Non-Western immigrants, often Muslims, are over-represented in statistics of crime, of dependency on social benefits, that we have honour killings, that we have genital mutilation, that we have streets where women with headscarves and burqas are not the exception any more. And that it's getting worse.

  Geert Wilders

  Benefits, Statistics, Killing

  Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl

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• I'm opposed to wearing headscarves in public places. That's not France. There's something I just don't understand: the people who come to France, why would they want to change France, to live in France the same way they lived back home?

  Marine Le Pen

  Home, People, Want

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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