Marieme Helie Lucas

My Blasphemy is Bigger Than Yours

Dictionaries define blasphemy as an attack (whether physical, symbolic, ideological, etc…) on the sacred (objects, deities, symbols, places, etc…). Notwithstanding the fact that, for some of us, “nothing is sacred,” this definition fails to take into account that what is sacred for one may be totally different from what is sacred for the other, or, …

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Secularism is a necessary (but insufficient) condition for establishing women’s rights

Looking back on the past 40 years of the women’s movement in predominantly Muslim contexts, one can clearly see different phases in the past decades and a new trend today. First of all, let me say that i do not know of any country or “community”, ruled by laws said to be Islamic, where i …

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