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" Some Muslim children, both male and female, have little choice in who to marry, what to study, what their careers will be, and who they can socialise with. Their lives are constrained under the expectations of family 'honour.' "

Deeyah Khan

Expectations

Family

Children

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" Many Muslim parents are authoritarian, which leaves young men and women with limited spaces to express themselves. Self-expression and autonomy are regarded as symptoms of 'Westernisation.' "

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" There is no psychiatric pattern which can predict who becomes an extremist - but they are all frustrated with their reality. "

" While religious fundamentalism is treated as a serious social problem because it has the potential to lead to rare but devastating acts of terrorism against the public, with a variety of programmes and interventions to address it, everyday violence against women occurring in the name of fundamentalism has long been neglected. "

" Freedom of expression is essential for feminists and dissidents in the Muslim world. "

" For many young men, joining in a radical movement is a way of feeling powerful, which is particularly intoxicating for men who feel their masculinity has been called into question, whether through victimisation or a failure to achieve the status that they feel they are entitled to. "

" Extremist movements are driven by their inability to tolerate the basic human fact of pluralism. They refuse to accept the natural cultural and religious diversity of our world, seeking to impose their own beliefs and behaviours as a universal pattern for humanity. "

Deeyah Khan

Diversity

Humanity

" Speech, not violence, is how we will bridge the divides between us. "

Deeyah Khan

Violence

Will

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" I'm a woman of colour. I am the daughter of immigrants. I am a Muslim. I am a feminist. I am a lefty liberal. "

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Daughter

I Am

" The problem with Muslim women is less that we cannot speak the language, but that no one listens to us. "

Deeyah Khan

Speak

Women

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" We must defend democracy using its own mechanisms, through explaining and exemplifying its merits rather than through the heavy-handed and arbitrary silencing of its critics. This is how we will build a sustainable alternative to the contorted worldview of extremists. "

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" If we value human rights, they should be at the core of the project against violent extremism, and women a key part of our imagined future. "

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" Muslim women can save the world from ISIS. "