Deeyah Khan Quotes
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I'm a woman of colour. I am the daughter of immigrants. I am a Muslim. I am a feminist. I am a lefty liberal.
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'Honour'-based violence is a form of domestic violence. Domestic violence is a broad category.
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Attacking racism and discrimination is a very important way to work against radicalisation.
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If we value human rights, they should be at the core of the project against violent extremism, and women a key part of our imagined future.
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Freedom of expression is essential for feminists and dissidents in the Muslim world.
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I have watched the spread of violent extremism and jihadism across Europe and the U.K. with dismay, particularly given my history of experiencing threats, abuse, and harassment by Muslim fanatics.
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We must defend democracy using its own mechanisms, through explaining and exemplifying its merits rather than through the heavy-handed and arbitrary silencing of its critics. This is how we will build a sustainable alternative to the contorted worldview of extremists.
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While religious fundamentalism is treated as a serious social problem because it has the potential to lead to rare but devastating acts of terrorism against the public, with a variety of programmes and interventions to address it, everyday violence against women occurring in the name of fundamentalism has long been neglected.
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Extremism is a complicated issue, but without addressing how it appeals to men and boys, we may be missing an important motivation and a way to address the problems in our towns and cities.
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Many Muslim parents are authoritarian, which leaves young men and women with limited spaces to express themselves. Self-expression and autonomy are regarded as symptoms of 'Westernisation.'
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Music, performance, and a woman is very rarely accepted within Muslim communities.
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Censorship in all its forms must be challenged.
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Like Theresa May, I regularly find myself infuriated by the rantings of Anjem Choudary and other hate preachers.
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We need to defend principles like democracy, freedom of speech, gender equality, and the rule of law through exemplifying these on a global scale, not through the same cynical, isolationist policies which have eroded these so-called 'British' values across the rest of the world.
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I'm just trying to stretch the public space wider and make it more open so that a wider variety of people and faces and stories and perspectives and also expertise can come through. So everything that I do rests on that, trying to support on other voices.
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As someone who grew up between two cultures, I have been fascinated with the question of why men and women with similar backgrounds to mine were drawn towards radical messages of hate and violence.
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The Trump phenomenon shows us how much fear of Muslims there is out there and how easily it can be exploited.
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Having more than one legal system running is not a sign of a healthy or inclusive society. It is just one less thing that people have in common.
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Women's empowerment, whether through legal, financial, or cultural routes, will tend to increase their agency and their ability to take part in activism.
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The state has a duty to protect all its citizens.
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The self-proclaimed Islamic State cannot tolerate diversity, which is why we must celebrate it.
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As a girl, I abandoned a promising singing career due to violent harassment by Islamists.
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Britain has been responsible for the undermining of democracy, turning a blind eye to abuses by its allies, using extraordinary rendition to get around the rule of law, passing over the denial of individual liberties to dissidents, and the evasion of the dismal situation for religious minorities.
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Jihadis want to watch the world burn, to bring everything crashing down, to destroy the establishment and rebuild it after their own pitiless vision. This misguided utopianism is what makes them such effective bogeymen.