Quotes about "Indigenous Wisdom"

The arrogance of secular Jews regarding the ultra-Orthodox community and their attempt to impose on it a different lifestyle is inappropriate. ”

For me, whatever vantage point that I'm serving, I'm going to be an advocate and do the work to actualize my values. ”

People entrust me with the responsibility of actualizing our shared values and, that said, I'm not in the business of going to try to convert people and getting their buy-in. I just do the work. ”

I will sit at the table and compromise with anyone in the name of progress, but there are things I'm not willing to compromise and negotiate on, and that is the rights of women, of immigrants, of workers, and of the LGBTQIA community. ”

The problem is that those of us who were born into Islam and who don't want to live according to scripture - we don't have what the Jews have, which is a rabbinical tradition that allows you to ask questions. We also don't have the church tradition that the Christians have. ”

We who don't want radical Islam to spread must compete with the agents of radical Islam. I want to see what would happen if Christians, feminists and Enlightenment thinkers were to start proselytizing in the Muslim community. ”

Unlike the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth, the umma, or Muslim community, has no symbolic leader, let alone a formal one. ”

There was a much more self-destructive nature in 'Appetite.' It was a going-for-it-at-all-cost thing that worked then. ”

Terrorism attacks Jews, but it targets all countries and Western values. Israel is just an hors d'oeuvre. ”

Unfortunately, the international community is not ready to deal with Iran's repeated provocations. ”