Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Assumptions (2019)

Meredith Holzman: Naomi Zeigler

Quotes 

• Naomi Zeigler : You wear a red baseball cap, civilized society assumes you're a racist, a bigot of the worst order. A teenager runs out of a synagogue, we assume he's an anti-Semite reliving the bliss of Kristallnacht. A Muslim woman is brutally attacked. We have no choice but to assume the animal was an Islamophobe, but, in this case the teenager was running because he was scared. The brutal attacker was not Jewish. Clearly, each and every one of those assumptions were dead wrong. So if you're tempted to assume Ms. Nasar was raped by her former husband because it was mandated by some medieval Koranic code, shame on you.

• Naomi Zeigler : Isn't it true that this whole charade is a hoax intended to raise your political profile, to gain sympathy...

  Peter Stone : Objection!

  Judge Karyn Blake : Sustained.

  Nahla Nasar : I thought I had to hide that part of my life. I was afraid...

  Naomi Zeigler : Nothing further.

  Nahla Nasar : I am here at risk of losing my family's love, my career, everything. But I am not afraid anymore.

• Peter Stone : You follow Sharia law, Mr. Faraj?

  Masud Faraj : Yes.

  Peter Stone : Sharia law states that homosexuality is immoral. "If any of your women are guilty of lewdness, take the evidence of four reliable witnesses from amongst them, and if they testify, confine them to houses until..." what? Mr. Faraj, I know you know the answer.

  Naomi Zeigler : Objection, Your Honor.

  Peter Stone : Mr. Faraj, until what? What is the answer?

  Masud Faraj : "Until death do claim them." I should have killed her.

  Peter Stone : Instead of just asssaulting and raping her? Why didn't you kill her?

  Masud Faraj : Because she is my wife!

  Peter Stone : Nothing further.