We Must Reclaim And Retake Feminism From

I Assume The Closest Members Of My Family Don't Actually Want To Kill Me, But The Truth Is That I Have Shamed And Hurt Them; They Have To Deal With The Outrage That My Public Statements Cause, And Undoubtedly Some Members Of My Clan Do Want To Kill Me For That.

I'd Love To Go And Visit The Mosque In Mecca Again, Just For The Sheer Beauty Of It, Not For God - Much The Way A Non-catholic Might Go To Vatican City Because Of The Beauty Of The Buildings And The Artifacts.

I Lived In Countries That Had No Democracy... So I Don't Find Myself In The Same Luxury As You Do. You Grew Up In Freedom, And You Can Spit On Freedom Because You Don't Know What It Is Not To Have Freedom.

What I Find Daunting Always Is To Stand On A Stage And Talk To People, Whether They Agree With Me Or Not.

By Declaring Our Prophet Infallible And Not Permitting Ourselves To Question Him, We Muslims Had Set Up A Static Tyranny. The Prophet Muhammad Attempted To Legislate Every Aspect Of Life. By Adhering To His Rules Of What Is Permitted And What Is Forbidden, We Muslims Supressed The Freedom To Think For Ourselves And To Act As We Chose. We Froze The Moral Outlook Of Billions Of People Into The Mindset Of The Arab Desert In The Seventh Century. We Were Not Just Servants Of Allah, We Were Slaves.