Basmah bint Saud quotes
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“Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.”
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“I am a very public person. I have nothing to hide.”
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“Today in Saudi, women are either at the mercy of their husbands or at the mercy of judges who tend to side with the husbands. The only circumstance that a woman can ask for a divorce or a khali is when her husband is in total agreement with her or if she comes from a very powerful family who decide to back her up.”
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“The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.”
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“On the whole it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate,”
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“Our religious police has the most dangerous effect on society - the segregation of genders, putting the wrong ideas in the heads of men and women, producing psychological diseases that never existed in our country before, like fanatacism.”
-- Basmah bint Saud
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“Creativity comes from applying things you learn in other fields to the field you work in.”
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“The peoples of Islam will always be closer to us than, for example, France. (2nd April 1945)”
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“In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.”
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“I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.”
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