I think the blood is spilling in Syria and it's mostly Muslims.

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East.

There are many other [then ISIS] terrorist organizations. And their primary victims are Muslims. I think that's very important.

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.

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.