Norwegian - Director | August 7, 1977 -
Self-expression should not be a challenge that demands extraordinary talent but should be a right accessible to all.
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'Honour'-based violence is a form of domestic violence. Domestic violence is a broad category.
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If we value human rights, they should be at the core of the project against violent extremism, and women a key part of our imagined future.
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We need more courageous individuals who will defy the structures of power, whether political, economic, or intimate, but we also need it to be safe for people to feel their power and to be able to express their ideas and imagine without fear.
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We need to be able to guarantee the safety of all artists and activists for human rights so that it no longer takes extraordinary courage to call for a better world - so that every person with the ability to imagine peace, equality, progress, and justice can express their dreams and hopes without fear.
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The Trump phenomenon shows us how much fear of Muslims there is out there and how easily it can be exploited.
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Muslim women can save the world from ISIS.
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Some Muslim children, both male and female, have little choice in who to marry, what to study, what their careers will be, and who they can socialise with. Their lives are constrained under the expectations of family 'honour.'
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There is no psychiatric pattern which can predict who becomes an extremist - but they are all frustrated with their reality.
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Many Muslim parents are authoritarian, which leaves young men and women with limited spaces to express themselves. Self-expression and autonomy are regarded as symptoms of 'Westernisation.'
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Within a life that seems uncomfortably scripted by family and community pressures, hyper-religiosity can provide a way to break with parental expectations and flee from parental control.
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The thing is, what most people don't understand is that there are so many of us growing up in Europe who are not free to be ourselves. We're not allowed to be who we are. We are not free to marry or to be in relationships with people that we choose. We can't even pick our own career. This is the norm in the Muslim heartlands of Europe.
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