Anjem Choudary Quotes

You—the outside world—will be told that it is our “culture” and “religion” to do X, Y, and Z to women. Understand that whoever deemed it as such was never a woman.

There’s no more despised figure on earth than a woman who seeks power.

I began to see why woman-haters could make such fools of women. Woman-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock full of power. They descended, and then they disappeared. You could never catch one.

Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection. But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have dominion over a man, but to be in quietness.

Every woman should be filled with shame by the thought that she is a woman.

Men have authority over women because God has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because God has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

The oppression of women is based on custom and tradition—not religion.

Control of females is mandatory for a successful, civilized, humane and compassionate society

… male religious leaders have had -- and still have -- an option to interpret holy teachings either to exalt or subjugate women. They have, for their own selfish ends, overwhelmingly chosen the latter.

When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

'Power' is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women.

Everything about women is in perpetual crisis.

Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.

For the several thousands of years before they became firefighters and physicians, women were sirens, enchantresses, snares. At times it seems as if female powerlessness is male self-preservation in disguise. And for millennia, this has made for a zero-sum game: A woman's intelligence was a man's deception.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

Tradition has made women cowardly.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

That both Muslim fundamentalists and the Christian right are today focusing their attempts to regain control in a rapidly changing world on frantic efforts to maintain control over women, particularly over women's sexuality. Moreover, given their mythologies about "holy wars," it is also understandable that they should use "divinely approved" violence to do so…

When woman reigns the devil governs.

I have not left any calamity more hurtful to man than woman.