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First of all, in many muslim countries women have incredible amounts of freedom, sometimes more than in some countries in europe. so you cannot just make a generalized statement about women. second, islam is not the problem. it's tradition. it's culture. it's age-old mind-sets that need to be changed.

-Queen Rania Of Jordan

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First Of All, In Many Muslim Countries

Queen Rania Of Jordan

First of all, in many muslim countries women have incredible amounts of freedom, sometimes more than in some countries in europe. so you cannot just make a generalized statement about women. second, islam is not the problem. it's tradition. it's culture. it's age-old mind-sets that need to be changed.

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It's perfectly ok that there are certain people who do not accept islam at all. therefore, to announce that i am a muslim can rub some people the wrong way. but my aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of islam have been misusing islam. they violate these rights and then seek refuge behind the argument that islam is not compatible with freedom and democracy. but this is basically to save face. in fact, i'm promoting democracy. and i'm saying that islam is not an excuse for thwarting democracy.

The iranian people were converted to islam not very much longer after the conquest of the arab world by islam, but they refused to adopt the arabic language, and it's a great point of pride to them that persian culture and the persian language and persian literature survived the conversion to islam. and the conversion to islam also was for most of them not the sunni majority form, but the shia one. so there's a great discrepancy between iranian society and many other of what we think of as arab muslim states and systems.

Every writer owes something to a particular tradition he/she grew up in. but no serious writer - other than the militantly nationalist ones - would reduce his/her domain of influence to a single tradition. furthermore, historical breaks are so common and large in europe that there are ruptures in every tradition which then connect the same generations across national borders. younger eastern european writers, for instance, have more in common with other writers of the same age in europe, than with the previous, communist-era generations in their own countries.

It’s a mistake to blame islam, a religion 14 centuries old, for the evil that should be ascribed to militant islam, a totalitarian ideology less than a century old. militant islam is the problem, but moderate islam is the solution.

In 2003, at the time i made my "old europe" comment, the center of gravity in nato and europe had long since shifted to the east. with the former warsaw pact countries joining nato, the alliance has a different mix today. some people were sensitive about my comment because they thought it was a pejorative way of highlighting demographic realities. apparently they felt it pointed a white light at a weakness in europe - an aging population. europe has come some distance since world war ii in becoming europe.

I won't be a party to a conspiracy to mobilize the arabs against the persians. only the forces of colonialism benefit from such a conspiracy. i won't be a party to a conspiracy that splits islam into two - shiite islam and sunni islam - mobilizing sunni islam against shiite islam.

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