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The idea that if people are just friendly and demonstrate they want peace, that will be answered with good will – that is really naive.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Avoiding offense means that we don’t accept each other as equals.
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Acceptance Avoid Equality Offense Partner
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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Children Education Human Narrative Tolerance Yourself
Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other ‘isms,’ it’s far superior.
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Capitalism Liberal Perfection Superior
Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.
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Coward One Liner Tolerance
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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Terrorism Time Train Work Yourself
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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Name Oppression Recognition Religion Tolerance
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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Freedom Liberty Offend
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
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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Believe Choice Death Father Freedom Independent Myself Thinking Willing
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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Alone Formal Leadership
Americans have always welcomed people of all backgrounds, religions, and races. It’s a spirit of tolerance, now energized and amplified by the cult of multiculturalism.
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Amplify Culture Race Religion Welcome
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
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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Born Critical Enlightenment Freedom Social Start Thinking Yourself
I love life more than I love death.
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Choice Death Life Love Myself
I want people to emphasize life before death as opposed to life after death.
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Death Life Myself People
In April 2006, a Dutch court ordered that I leave my safe-home that I was renting from the State. The judge concluded that my neighbors had a right to argue that they felt unsafe because of my presence in the building.
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Argument Building Leaving Order Right State

The idea that if people are just friendly and demonstrate they want peace, that will be answered with good will – that is really naive.

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The idea that if people are just friendly and demonstrate they want peace, that will be answered with good will – that is really naive.

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