I found that being online has opened a window for me to look into other people's lives... The greatest fear that I have is losing touch.

By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.

My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'

I don't know if I'd put labels on myself, but I do feel that when women are empowered, they have the power to transform society.

The hardest [part] is some of the misperceptions that are leveled against me as a person and against Muslim women.

Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.

First of all, in many Muslim countries women have incredible amounts of freedom, sometimes more than in some countries in Europe. So you cannot just make a generalized statement about women. Second, Islam is not the problem. It's tradition. It's culture. It's age-old mind-sets that need to be changed.