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Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other ‘isms,’ it’s far superior.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I’d like Muslims to look at their religion as a set of beliefs that they can appraise critically and pick and choose from.
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Choice Criticism Muslim Myself Region
Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other ‘isms,’ it’s far superior.
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Capitalism Liberal Perfection Superior
Unlike the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth, the umma, or Muslim community, has no symbolic leader, let alone a formal one.
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Alone Formal Leadership
They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country’s life and I took it.
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Chance Country Decision Immigrant Life Participate
I call myself a liberal – a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill.
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Call Liberal Myself
I lived in countries that had no democracy. so I don’t find myself in the same luxury as you do. You grew up in freedom, and you can spit on freedom because you don’t know what it is not to have freedom.
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Country Democracy Freedom Known Live Luxury Yourself
In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and precious…. The first time she saw a white person my grandmother was in her thirties: she thought this person’s skin had burned off.
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Burn Herself Iron Live Metal Person Precious Rare System Time Writing
In 2010, I suggested that if you are a good Muslim with a good conscience, go and look for a better God, and I think that was juvenile of me.
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Conscience Goodness Myself Thinking
I assume the closest members of my family don’t actually want to kill me, but the truth is that I have shamed and hurt them; they have to deal with the outrage that my public statements cause, and undoubtedly some members of my clan do want to kill me for that.
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Assume Close Doubt Family Kill Member Myself Public Statement
However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.
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Injustice Silence Time
Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between Islam and the west. But a radical minority of Muslims firmly believes that Islam is under siege, and is committed to winning the holy war it has declared against the West.
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Believe Civilization Commitment Declare Holy Islam Live People War
Young people, some of whom are not born into the faith, are being fired up by preachers using basic Islamic scripture and mobilized to wage jihad by radical imams who represent themselves as legitimate Muslim clergymen.
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Born Faith Islam People Religion Scripture Young
There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance.
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Difference Huge Tolerance
My conscience is informed by reason. It’s like Kant’s categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.
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Behavior Conscience Information Yourself
The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets.
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Bold Enemy Obligation
In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God’s holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only in your private life.
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Book Constitution Democracy Holy Life Privacy State

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