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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.

Is not just any bint," he said. "This is a philosopher-queen, a sultana ...

We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.'

So many people are of mixed heritage; everyone is from somewhere else.

I think comics are really part of The Zeitgeist. They reflect back to us the issues that we're concerned about in the time they are written.

Be careful with this one" said Dina, bending down to greet the cat. "All cats are half jinn, but I think she's three quarters.

Jhumpa Lahiri calls living in a foreign country "an eternal pregnancy"; an uncomfortable wait for something impossible to define.

A hero is just somebody who tries to do the right thing even when it's hard.
There are more of us than you think.

I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.

The story of a passionate woman in a stale marriage is as old as Helen of Troy.

Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful.

The Qur'an is God's property, not mine.

Birds make music, river reeds in wind make music. Babies make music. God would not forbid something that is the sharia of innocent creatures.

Revolutions are 90% social diarrhea.

Unique is not the same as alone.

Man was exiled from the Garden for eating a single fruit, and now you propose to uproot the whole tree without the angels noticing.

The first comic I ever read was an 'X-Men' themed anti-smoking PSA they gave out in health class when I was about 10.

Anything undertaken with honest intentions can be justly defended.

I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.

Dear child, some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that.

I don't want foreigners involved in my business. Jinn are one thing but I draw the line at Americans.

I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.

Love the life you have been given. And be humbled by it. It is not to be despised.

At some point, the devoted pass from belief into certainty. I did not believe in Islam; I opened my eyes every morning and saw it.

Anytime you're writing stories about a group of people with whom you have limited experience, there's a lot of guesswork.

I think people, especially in the Muslim community, are rightly cautious any time you hear, 'Oh, there's going to be a Muslim character.'

All problems are simply interruptions in the transmission and preservation of data, he reminded himself.

The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.

'Lost' makes a lot of sense to me, philosophically.

Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.

Most people know Muslims in their community but don't realize it.

For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.

Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.

I would have done anything for Intisar. Her love was like three kebab meals to me, with tahini and hot peppers. I never took her for granted. Never.

Muslims are ordinary members of the working public, just like you.

The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.

We don't hinge on universes. We hinge on little things.

Destiny and choice are the same thing. You chose to be here, so it couldn't have happened any other way.

Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of a man.

I didn't believe in spiritual homelands, and found God as readily in a strip mall as in a mosque.

The act of concealment had become more powerful than what it concealed.

I think every Muslim woman has to feel the world out for herself.

Nobody as the right to give up on a whole generation before it's even had a right to prove itself.

The more you put out there, the more you have to resolve. 'Air' is the most literary comic I've written so far, and that poses problems.

My faith did not require beauty or belonging - the deeper I went into my practice, the less it required at all.

Society didn't mind if you broke the rules; it only required you to acknowledge them.

There are few things more overwhelming than love in hostile territory.

I suppose every innovation started out as a fantasy.

Culture belongs to the imagination; to judge it rationally is to misunderstand its function.

You can't really separate modernity from history or spiritual concerns from mundane ones. Everything feeds into everything else.

In Arab Islamic society, it is traditionally taboo to criticize the lifestyle or personal philosophy of any practicing Muslim.

When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.

There is infinite space within a human life.

If she was pretty and well-mannered, a daughter could marry up; a son could not. A son needed his own prospects.

In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.

'Butterfly Mosque' came out of the emails I wrote to family and friends back home after moving to Egypt.

Metaphors are dangerous. Calling something by a false name changes it, and metaphor is just a fancy way of calling something by a false name.

When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.

No," said Dina. "We don't burn books."
"Who's we?"
"People with an ounce of brain.

I do hope the success of 'Ms. Marvel' will open doors for other characters and other creators.

There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.

That's half of heroing. Noticing things.

A story is a story, and one may glean from it what one likes. Good sense need not enter into it.

These are not the banu adam you're looking for.

All translations are made up" opined Vikram, "Languages are different for a reason. You can't move ideas between them without losing something

I was born in New Jersey and lived there until I was about 10, so Jersey is in my roots.

Revolutions are ninety percent social diarrhea.

Metaphors: knowledge existing in several states simultaneously and without contradiction.

Good is not a thing you are. It's a thing you do.

To me, writing an ongoing series feels like driving a freight train downhill. All you can do is steer and pray.

Being a Muslim in America, I've noticed that there's a ton of crossover between the Muslim community and geekdom.

Islam is antiauthoritarian, sex-positive monotheism.

How weak your little fleshy hands are. Have you ever done anything with them but type and fondle yourself?

But being someone else isn't liberating. It's exhausting.

The Qur'an is in many ways far less concrete than the Bible, relying on the esoteric more often than the apparent.

People love to talk about new and different. They don't always love to buy and read new and different.

Wonder and awe have gone out of your religions. You are prepared to accept the irrational, but not the transcendent.

It's why men are meant to have beards - growing all that hair leaves no energy for moodiness. Much more dignified.

Superheroes don't often get their powers in one fell swoop. It's like superhero puberty.

Once you discover that the world rewards reckless faith, no lesser world is worth contemplating.

Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.

I think lot of Muslims have gotten fatigued by the way Muslim characters, even 'positive' ones, are portrayed in the media.

It's patently impossible for a Muslim character to represent 'all Muslims.'

It is only given to women to see without being seen - men must act in the open, or not at all.

We try men through one another. - Quran 6:53

Many of us prefer to live in places abandoned by humans. Less work for us. Detroit is very popular.

Oh my God, can we not talk about puberty?! I'm still not over my mom's "you're a woman now" speech.

There are very religious people who write comics and who love comics.

What are you thinking?" she asked. "I'm thinking that you are all good things in one place," he said.

The only power worth a snot is the power to get up after you fall down.

I don't think there's something inherently irreligious about comics.

Good is not a thing you are. It is a thing you do.

Sometimes you need to see a place through new eyes in order to understand what you've missed.