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
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.
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.
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.
Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.
Muslims are the primary victims of ISIS. Muslims are the ones who want to do the most to defeat this ideology. It's important that we don't do their propaganda for them, by giving them the legitimacy that they crave.
I think it's important to understand that ISIS's biggest enemy are ordinary Muslims. That's why they're fleeing.
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.
We don't want to bury our heads in the sand about serious issues.
Muslims have a right to every other people, like everybody, to come to the United States.
ISIS simply do not have ideological, theological, or popular support. And this is a criminal organization that is funding their criminality with things like drug trade and selling oil.
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?
There are hundreds and hundreds of followers of Islamic State around Europe and the U.S. The Saudis are showing this. And all you have to do is look at the conversation inside of our mosques and inside of our communities.
I have to say that I saw terrorists in 2002, went to Islamabad, Pakistan, and met women who were supporting this ideology. I call them the Taliban Ladies Auxiliary back then.