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Every time I went on TV I got a threat.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage.
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Door Escape Islam Open Prison Religion Stay
If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well.
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Nation Status Well Young
The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets.
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Bold Enemy Obligation
I confront the European elite’s self-image as tolerant ‘while under their noses women are living like slaves.
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Elite Image Live Myself Slave Tolerance Woman
We must reclaim and retake feminism from our fellow idiotic women.
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Feminism Ourselves Woman
I don’t have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it’s not realistic to daydream about it.
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Break Country Myself Realistic
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
Reality is not easy, but all this make-believe doesn’t make it easier.
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Believe Easy Reality
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
We had a world dominated by the Soviet Union on the one hand, and the Americans on the other hand. They called it the Cold War. But it wasn’t cold. I am someone who comes from the third world. In the third world, the cold war wasn’t cold. Millions had been killed. It was a proxy war.
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Domination Hands Kill War World
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
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.
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Head Movement Politics Reason Religious See Woman
The West is duly terrified. But it should not be surprised.
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Surprise Terrify
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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Death Injustice Kind Live People Silence Time
I have had to pay a price for leaving Islam and for speaking out. I have to pay for round-the-clock security because of the death threats against me.
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Death Islam Leaving Myself Pay Price Threat
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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Believe Culture Family Islam Life Myself Parents Western

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