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.
AYAAN HIRSI ALII wanted secular, non-Muslim people to stop kidding themselves that Islam is peace and tolerance.
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Reality is not easy, but all this make-believe doesn’t make it easier.
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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.
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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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If we don’t take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.
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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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The Christian take on Hellfire seems less dramatic than the Muslim vision, which I grew up with, but Christian magical thinking appeals to me no more than my mother’s angels and djinns.
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Bear true witness, even if it be against yourselves, your parents or your family.
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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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I call myself a liberal – a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill.
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There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance.
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But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can’t acquire knowledge.
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We have to start with the little babies who are born now, socialize them in freedom and critical thinking. We don’t have to throw away their faith. People confuse the two, thinking if you are enlightened that means apostasy. It doesn’t.
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I want people to emphasize life before death as opposed to life after death.
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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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Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other ‘isms,’ it’s far superior.
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