Fatima Mernissi Quotes

One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will.

You have to do what's best for you and what's going to make you happy at the end of the day, because no one can live with the consequences or anything that comes with your decision besides you.

The old theory was, that the least possible should be left to the choice of the individual agent; that all he had to do should, as far as practicable, be laid down for him by superior wisdom. Left to himself he was sure to go wrong.

No public official, no congressman, has the right to tell a woman what decision she must make and no congressman has the wisdom to dictate what is best for her.

Religion does not require women to veil their hands, feet and faces or enjoin any special type of veil. Tribal custom must not impose itself on the free will of the individual

It accords with the good order of the realm and the peacefulness of our times that each should have freedom to worship God after his own choice.

Someone else is going to read for me or go at my place to the mosque, and/or to tell me you shouldn't take anything from the West because the West is the enemy and so on. It is to me to decide. I am intelligent enough to be critical towards the West and take what I need and reject what is bad for me.

I can't really decide for other people what to think.

Everyone has to run their own race and make their own decisions.

Whatever you feel is right, whether that's moving to a new club or staying to fight for a position, everyone has a right to do what they want to do.

It is not because others tell me I have to change my driving style that I will change.

There is a misconception that young Muslim women are oppressed. That simply isn't the case. I choose to dress modestly and choose to cover my hair with a hijab; not all Muslim women make that choice, and that's okay. We are all different!

The problem with Islam is that it's a law, not a religion, and it's incompatible with our values, our rights, and our freedoms.

Everyone should be decisive about what's best for them and stick to it.

When I'm asked what my girls will think when they grow up, I'll tell them that they have to keep their clothes on till they're 40. But when they're 40, they can make their own decisions.

People have to make their own decisions about their lives.

I'm going to make decisions that I think are best for me and my family. So, when I make these decisions, of course I'm going to ask people for advice, but at the end of the day, Brandon Jennings makes the decisions. And I feel like the decisions that I've made so far have been successful.

Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).

Man must choose his world

No government can make me wear a veil, no government can force me not to wear it either

It is helpful to know the proper way to behave, so one can decide whether or not to be proper.

If we are not even free anymore to decide something as basic as what we wish to eat or drink, how much freedom do we really have left?

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.

The fact is every single day in the ordinary American people, America's families have to make decisions about their families and that should be made by them, not by the Texas or United States.

You can’t make a life-altering decision for someone else and expect it to stick.