The world must stop trying to 'rescue' Muslim women

The world must stop trying to 'rescue' Muslim women Submitted by Soumaya Ghannoushi on Fri, 09/18/2026 - 15:24 The measure of our freedom is not how closely we resemble somebody else's image of liberation A woman prays at Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City on 27 September 2023 (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP) Off There is perhaps no woman in contemporary political discourse who has been rescued quite as relentlessly as the Muslim woman. The image is familiar: the Muslim woman, particularly the woman i