Azar Nafisi Quotes About Islam

• I think Islam is in a sense, in crisis. It needs to question and re-question itself.

  Azar Nafisi

  Thinking, Islam, Needs

  Interview with David Brancaccio, www.pbs.org. June 20, 2003.

• In the past 30 years, officials of the Iranian regime and its apologists have labeled criticism, especially with regard to women's rights, as anti-Islamic and pro-Western, justifying its brutalities by ascribing them to Islam and Iran's culture.

  Azar Nafisi

  Islamic, Past, Years

  "Iran’s Women: Canaries in the Coal Mine" by Azar Nafisi, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2010.

• Look at Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution and the slogans that they used: anti-imperialism; anti-colonialism; the struggle of the have-nots against the haves; the state monopoly over economy, which was very much patterned after the Soviet Union. All of these things did not come out of Islam. Islam is not that developed.

  Azar Nafisi

  Struggle, Islam, Colonialism

• Es un buen momento para preguntar a los apologistas del régimen islámico, ¿quién degrada el Islam? ¿Quién impone la lapidación, el matrimonio forzado de niñas menores de edad y la flagelación por no llevar velo? ¿Representan tales prácticas la historia y la cultura ancestrales de Irán, su diversidad étnica y religiosa? ¿Sus siglos de poesía sensual y subversiva?

  Azar Nafisi

  Girl, Religious, Islamic

  "Iran’s Women: Canaries in the Coal Mine" by Azar Nafisi, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2010.

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