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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.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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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Bear true witness, even if it be against yourselves, your parents or your family.
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Family Parents True Yourself
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
Every time you take a train, step into your car, walk into the shopping mall, go to the airport – every single time, something could happen. That’s how terrorism works.
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Muslim leaders should ask themselves what exactly their relationship is to a political movement that encourages young men to kill and main on religious grounds.
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I confront the European elite’s self-image as tolerant ‘while under their noses women are living like slaves.
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Every time I went on TV I got a threat.
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I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.
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Argument Judgment Victim
Reality is not easy, but all this make-believe doesn’t make it easier.
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Believe Easy Reality
I don’t believe there is such a thing as ‘moderate Islam.’ I think it’s better to talk about degrees of belief and degrees of practice.
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Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists or sympathetic to terrorists. Equating all Muslims with terrorism is stupid and wrong. But acknowledging that there is a link between Islam and terror is appropriate and necessary.
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Acknowledgement Equation Majority Necessary Stupidity Terrorist Wrong
All my life I have been a nomad.
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Life Myself Traveler
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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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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Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other ‘isms,’ it’s far superior.
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I wanted secular, non-Muslim people to stop kidding themselves that Islam is peace and tolerance.
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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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