The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets.

AYAAN HIRSI ALI

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The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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Bold Obligation

Bagwalas

Women covering their heads is traditional, but now we’re seeing more and more women covering themselves from head to toe. This is said to be for religious reasons but it’s actually the conflation of religion and politics – every political movement has its slogans, flags and dress.

AYAAN HIRSI ALI

Women covering their heads is traditional, but now we’re seeing more and more women covering themselves from head to toe. This is said to be for religious reasons but it’s actually the conflation of religion and politics – every political movement has its slogans, flags and dress.
AYAAN HIRSI ALI

Religious See
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.

AYAAN HIRSI ALI

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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Muslim Religious
I do not believe in God, angels and the hereafter.

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I do not believe in God, angels and the hereafter.
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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.

AYAAN HIRSI ALI

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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Unlike the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth, the umma, or Muslim community, has no symbolic leader, let alone a formal one.

AYAAN HIRSI ALI

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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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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Muslim Region
In 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.

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In 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.
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Meaning Respectful
If we don’t take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.
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Measurement
All my life I have been a nomad.

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All my life I have been a nomad.
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Traveler
Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.

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Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.
AYAAN HIRSI ALI
We who don’t want radical Islam to spread must compete with the agents of radical Islam. I want to see what would happen if Christians, feminists and Enlightenment thinkers were to start proselytizing in the Muslim community.

AYAAN HIRSI ALI

We who don’t want radical Islam to spread must compete with the agents of radical Islam. I want to see what would happen if Christians, feminists and Enlightenment thinkers were to start proselytizing in the Muslim community.
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Community Islam Radical
I come from a world where the word ‘trauma’ doesn’t exist, because we are too poor. I didn’t have an easy life compared to the average European. But compared to the average African, it wasn’t all that bad.

AYAAN HIRSI ALI

I come from a world where the word ‘trauma’ doesn’t exist, because we are too poor. I didn’t have an easy life compared to the average European. But compared to the average African, it wasn’t all that bad.
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Trauma Word
I want people to emphasize life before death as opposed to life after death.

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I want people to emphasize life before death as opposed to life after death.
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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.

AYAAN HIRSI ALI

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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Islam Scripture
There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance.

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There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance.
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Huge
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.

AYAAN HIRSI ALI

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.
AYAAN HIRSI ALI

Islam Modern

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