Fatema Mernissi Quotes

So much of Islam is Judeo-Christianity. It's impossible to divorce them. Islam is 600 years after Christ. Thousands of years after Judaism. Christ, Moses, Abraham - they are all in the Koran.

Fatema Mernissi

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  Fatema Mernissi
  • Impossible
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  • Islam