Dervish

Nesrine Malik has a piece in the Guardian on “Do Muslim women need liberating?” based on a number of talks given at a conference.

Malik hit the right balance for me: I resent being told by non-Muslims or ex-Muslims like Ayaan Hirsi Ali
that I am oppressed, but I also resent being told that I am not
oppressed at all by those who urge me to go back to the roots of my
faith and find liberation by shedding my Orientalist views and being
more understanding of the colonial hangover from which Muslim men
suffer.

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