“Islam is about selection, not election.”
Abdul Rashid Ghazi (1964–2007) Pakistani fundamentalist
“Women are free in the Islamic Republic in the selection of their activities and their future and their clothing.”
Interview for The Guardian in Paris (6 November 1978)
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