Reality is not easy, but all this make-believe doesn’t make it easier.
AYAAN HIRSI ALIIf we don’t take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.
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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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I want people to emphasize life before death as opposed to life after death.
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We must reclaim and retake feminism from our fellow idiotic women.
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Bear true witness, even if it be against yourselves, your parents or your family.
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But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can’t acquire knowledge.
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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 believe that the dysfunctional Muslim family constitutes a real threat to the very fabric of western life. It is in the family that children are groomed to practise, promote and pass on the norms of their parents’ culture.
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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.
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I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned English.
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People ask me if I have some kind of death wish, to keep saying the things I do. The answer is no: I would like to keep living. However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.
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The West is duly terrified. But it should not be surprised.
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My first experience in the Netherlands was very pleasant, extremely pleasant. I mean, I got my residence permit, refugee status, within four weeks of arrival. People treated me extremely well.
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In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and precious…. The first time she saw a white person my grandmother was in her thirties: she thought this person’s skin had burned off.
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I love life more than I love death.
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In 1985 as a teenager in Kenya, I was an adamant member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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