But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can’t acquire knowledge.
AYAAN HIRSI ALIWe must reclaim and retake feminism from our fellow idiotic women.
More Ayaan Hirsi Ali Quotes
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It takes a long time to dissolve the bars of a mental cage.
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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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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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I confront the European elite’s self-image as tolerant ‘while under their noses women are living like slaves.
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What we are now doing with the victory, and I agree with you if you condemn that and I condemn whole-heartedly the trivial bullshit it is to go after a man who makes a scientific breakthrough and all that we as women — organized women — do is to fret about his shirt?
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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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I call myself a liberal – a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill.
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Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.
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I’d love to go and visit the Mosque in Mecca again, just for the sheer beauty of it, not for God – much the way a non-Catholic might go to Vatican City because of the beauty of the buildings and the artifacts.
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I do not believe in God, angels and the hereafter.
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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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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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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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Islam is not a race. Islam is simply a set of beliefs, and it is not ‘Islamophobic’ to say Islam is incompatible with liberal democracy.
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They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country’s life and I took it.
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