Regina

“The Communist regimes in the Soviet Union and China also promised women equality as part of their revolutions but delivered a reality that fell far short.”
― Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights

“The extreme, yet perhaps inevitable, expression of all these beliefs and behaviors—polygamy, religiously sanctioned bigotry, unchecked sexual harassment, a lack of sex education, repressed sexual urges, and the honor/shame dichotomy—is taharrush gamea, “the rape game” in Arabic. Gang rape is considered a particularly reprehensible crime in the West, but in the Arab world, where speaking about sexual violence elicits more suffering than support, the rape game takes place openly.”
― Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights

“Sometimes where you feel most safe is where you least belong.”
― Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

“Your wives are as a tilth unto you, so approach your tilth when or how you wish” (Quran 2:223) and “When the man invites his wife to his bed she should satisfy him even if she were on the camel’s saddle” (Sahihul-Jami’). It was passages like these that ISIS used to justify the buying, selling, and raping of Yazidi women in Iraq. The women were not sexually enslaved because of their ethnicity but rather treated as the Quran ordains non-Muslim women should be treated.”
― Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights