Dalia Mogahed
Dalia Mogahed
Dalia Mogahedis an American scholar of Egyptian origin. She is the Director of Research at the Institute for Social Policy and Understandingin Washington, D.C. She is also President and CEO of Mogahed Consulting, a Washington, D.C.-based executive coaching and consulting firm specializing in Muslim societies and the Middle East. Mogahed is former Executive Director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, a non-partisan research center that provided data and analysis to reflect the views of Muslims all over the world...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
CountryUnited States of America
Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.
I think the guy who gets the least chatter, given how high his chances are of winning the nomination, is Ted Cruz.
People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.
I don't say anything wacky about women. I have more respect for women than anybody would understand and I'm going to give people jobs and I'm going to protect people.
We have to be concerned about the gun killing that people who are Americans, who are Irish, and who are English, who are all around the country.
You know, a meme is now circulating that's called the Ostrich Brigade. And it's used to describe all those people who are burying their heads in the sand. I call it the three D strategy. It's denial, deflection, and a demonization of those of us who want to speak honestly about these issues of extremism.
I think the blood is spilling in Syria and it's mostly Muslims.
Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East.
I'm not in the business of changing policies. I hope to inform, not form, decisions.
I'm hearing here that this Muslim movement, well, for women, is what we have to focus on. And women have been doing, I think, the right thing. Having the conversations, talking to people about that.
I think what speaks loudest and what speaks to your point is the blood that's spilling from Australia, to now California. I mean, how much blood has to be spilled until we recognize inside of a Muslim community that with do have an ideological problem?
Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.
This is a book called Women in the Shade of Islam. It's published by the government of Saudi Arabia. I picked it up in Pakistan, where the Taliban Ladies Auxiliary, and our young wife in California would've picked up an item like this. And it puts out that Salafi-Wahhabi ideology that is ultimately the toxic poison that is crossing all these borders.
How women view religion's role in society is shaped more by their own country's culture and context than one monolithic view that religion is simply bad for women.