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I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

In the real world, equal respect for all cultures doesn’t translate into a rich mosaic of colorful and proud peoples interacting peacefully while maintaining a delightful diversity of food and craftwork. It translates into closed pockets of oppression, ignorance, and abuse.
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Abuse Culture Equality Ignorance Maintain Oppression People Reality Respect Tradition
The mistake that the Bush administration should admit to is not so much that they made the wrong choices. They made the right analysis; they made the right choices. But what they did wrong was the execution of those choices. That was wrong.
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Administration Analysis Mistake Right Wrong
I think of Canada, first and foremost, in terms of space. The amount of space available is breathtaking.
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Breathe Foremost Myself Space Thinking
When I was with the Labor Party, I’d get into trouble because the party bosses determined that some of what I wrote, or proposed to write about, wasn’t conducive to their policies or to electoral success.
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Determination Myself Party Policy Success Trouble Writing
Bear true witness, even if it be against yourselves, your parents or your family.
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Family Parents True Yourself
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
My brother thinks it is very, very bad that I left Islam. My half-sister wants to convert me back; I want to convert her to Western values. My mum is terrified that when I die, and we all go to God, I will be burned.
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Bad Brother Burn Death Family Mom Myself Religion Thinking
All my life I have been a nomad.
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Life Myself Traveler
However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.
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Injustice Silence Time
What I find daunting always is to stand on a stage and talk to people, whether they agree with me or not.
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Agreement Finding Myself Stage Stand
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
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
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 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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Enlightenment Knowledge Life Myself Separate State Talk
I believe that the dysfunctional Muslim family constitutes a real threat to the very fabric of western life. It is in the family that children are groomed to practise, promote and pass on the norms of their parents’ culture.
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Believe Culture Family Islam Life Myself Parents Western
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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Difference God Islam Purity Religion Submission

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