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Asra Nomani

"We're talking about everybody's free right to have choice. And so what we're also getting are interesting messages like you really need to obey the command of Allah and put a scarf on your head. And what we caution well-intentioned Americans and others to think about is whether the scarf matches their own values related to issues of honor and shame."

Source : "The Case Against Wearing Hijab To Support Muslim Women". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. December 22, 2015.

Asra Nomani

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“Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.”
“The success of an intervention depends on the interior condition of the intervenor.”
“Of course, Bronx is also useful as a kind of living personality test. If Bronx likes you, it's a [darn] good sign.”
“That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're out; you don't have a chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over, you're out of the business.”
“I can write no other than this: unless we use the weapons of the spirit, denying ourselves and taking up our cross and following Jesus, dying with Him and rising with Him, men will go on fighting, and often from the highest motives, believing that they are fighting defensive wars for justice and in self-defense against present or future aggression.”
“There is no universal template that can be applied to everybody. So everyone kind of enter the process in their own way, on their own time.”

Source : Source: www.chicagonow.com
“I'm always suffering from a labor shortage.”
“As African economies boom and businesses are created, one of the big questions this growth raises is that of third-level education: how can Africa develop a knowledge infrastructure to rival that of the west, a sort of Harvard University in Africa?”

Source : "An African Ivy League" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2013.

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