The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and the appalling treatment of black people during the civil rights movement. At the same time, they want to continue to defend the rights of individuals.
AYAAN HIRSI ALIEvery time I went on TV I got a threat.
More Ayaan Hirsi Ali Quotes
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All my life I have been a nomad.
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Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other ‘isms,’ it’s far superior.
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Avoiding offense means that we don’t accept each other as equals.
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In 1985 as a teenager in Kenya, I was an adamant member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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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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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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I call myself a liberal – a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill.
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I talk about a Christianity that is enlightened enough to separate spirituality from the rest of life. Not just church and state, but knowledge and church.
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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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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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Bear true witness, even if it be against yourselves, your parents or your family.
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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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The mistake that the Bush administration should admit to is not so much that they made the wrong choices. They made the right analysis; they made the right choices. But what they did wrong was the execution of those choices. That was wrong.
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Reality is not easy, but all this make-believe doesn’t make it easier.
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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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