Nadia Yassine

Nadia Yassine (Arabic: نادية ياسين) (born December 1958) is the head of the women's branch of the Moroccan Islamist movement Al Adl Wa Al Ihssane (Justice and Spirituality). Born in Casablanca, Morocco, she is the daughter of the founder of the same organization Cheikh Abdesslam Yassine.

Quotes

"Our Religion Is Friendly to Women'" (2007)

"Our Religion Is Friendly to Women", Spiegel International (March 7, 2007)

• We don't even need a quota. That's another area where we don't need to imitate the West.

• This alliance should develop a new constitution, which no longer serves the autocracy.

• We have nothing to do with the violent fundamentalist Islamist cells, but we understand their motivations.

• Attempts are constantly made to integrate me into the system. Sometimes I am intimidated and sometimes lured. But as long as there are no overarching changes in this country, I cannot be a part of the political game.

• Many in the West believe Arab societies must automatically be despotic, but that is not true.

• The king has passed a law for women who go to high school, but not for average people in the countryside.

• A Muslim model of government in accordance with our ideas is very much an example of grassroots democracy.

• it's right for women to have more liberties.

• Our religion is much more capable of solving social problems than Western models that only benefit the elite.

• you solve the social problems, you also help women. Women have no problem with Islam. They have a problem with power.

• But the men, these little machos, have robbed us of that. It's their fault that the whole world believes the opposite.

• if all that matters are the rights of women -- you can call me a feminist if you like.

• The history of the women's movement in the West has unfolded completely differently from here.