The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and the appalling treatment of black people during the civil rights movement. At the same time, they want to continue to defend the rights of individuals.
AYAAN HIRSI ALIIn Holland I have seen well-meaning, principled people blinded by multiculturalism, overwhelmed by the imperative to be sensitive and respectful of immigrant culture, while ignoring criminal abuse of women and girls.
More Ayaan Hirsi Ali Quotes
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Islam is not a race. Islam is simply a set of beliefs, and it is not ‘Islamophobic’ to say Islam is incompatible with liberal democracy.
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As a woman you are better off in life earning your own money. You couldn’t prevent your husband from leaving you or taking another wife, but you could have some of your dignity if you didn’t have to beg him for financial support.
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You have to let individuals make their own choices and respect that, even if it’s your own child. And that’s what was taken away from me. My father passed away thinking I still had to go back to his way of believing.
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Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other ‘isms,’ it’s far superior.
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No one in the American Enterprise imposes their beliefs. We clash, and I think that’s what the West is all about.
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The West is duly terrified. But it should not be surprised.
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There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance.
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I see no difference between Islam and Islamism. Islam is defined as submission to the will of Allah, as it is described in the Koran. Islamism is just Islam in its most pure form.
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We must reclaim and retake feminism from our fellow idiotic women.
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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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Every time I went on TV I got a threat.
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I don’t have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it’s not realistic to daydream about it.
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After the horrific massacre Wednesday at the French weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, perhaps the West will finally put away its legion of useless tropes trying to deny the relationship between violence and radical Islam.
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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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Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.
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If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well.
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If we don’t take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.
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I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.
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In 1985 as a teenager in Kenya, I was an adamant member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion and culture any more than we would tolerate violent oppression espoused by any other bully in the name of a twisted rationale.
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You’ll be pleased to hear, Christopher, that I am no longer a Muslim liberal but an atheist, I find that it obviates the necessity for any cognitive dissonance.
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Bear true witness, even if it be against yourselves, your parents or your family.
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I talk about a Christianity that is enlightened enough to separate spirituality from the rest of life. Not just church and state, but knowledge and church.
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Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.
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European children are educated in a narrative of human tolerance every day, and if you want to be sure to prevent a backlash, you should at least think of bringing Muslim children and teenagers into the fold of that narrative of tolerance.
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I was a Muslim once, remember, and it was when I was most devout that I was most full of hate.
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