It’s Not About the Burqa brings together Muslim women’s voices. It does not represent the experiences of every Muslim woman or claim to cover every single issue faced by Muslim women. It’s not possible to create that book. But this book is
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This book contains numerous essays written by Muslim women from various backgrounds, occupation and race.


“The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”
― Tuesdays With Morrie
― Tuesdays With Morrie

“All other emotions belong to the earth, but passion inhabits the universe.”
― Britt-Marie Was Here
― Britt-Marie Was Here

“All passion is childish. It's banal and naive. It's nothing we learn; it's instinctive, and so it overwhelms us. Overturns us. It bears us away in a flood. All other emotions belong to earth, but passion inhabits the universe.
That is the reason why passion is worth something, not for what it gives us but for what it demands we risk. Our dignity. The puzzlement of others and their condescending, shaking heads”
― Britt-Marie Was Here
That is the reason why passion is worth something, not for what it gives us but for what it demands we risk. Our dignity. The puzzlement of others and their condescending, shaking heads”
― Britt-Marie Was Here
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