Fauzia’s Reviews > The Othered Woman: How White Feminism Harms Muslim Women > Status Update

“Describing French colonial rule in Algeria, Frantz Fanon- a French-Martinican psychiatrist and anti-colonial intellectual - once said: ‘if we want to destroy the structure of Algerian society, its capacity for resistance, we must go and find the behind the veil where they hide themselves and in the houses where the men keep them out of sight’. Pg

“ Muslim women and girls are only viewed as in need of saving as long as they fit into the narrative created for them of the weak and silenced woman”