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Young people, some of whom are not born into the faith, are being fired up by preachers using basic Islamic scripture and mobilized to wage jihad by radical imams who represent themselves as legitimate Muslim clergymen.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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
Bear true witness, even if it be against yourselves, your parents or your family.
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Family Parents True Yourself
We who don’t want radical Islam to spread must compete with the agents of radical Islam. I want to see what would happen if Christians, feminists and Enlightenment thinkers were to start proselytizing in the Muslim community.
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Community Enlightenment Islam Radical Start Thinking
In 1985 as a teenager in Kenya, I was an adamant member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Adamant Brother Islam
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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Chance Country Decision Immigrant Life Participate
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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Belief Democracy Islam Liberal Race Religion Simplicity
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
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
However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.
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Injustice Silence Time
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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Answer Friendly Goodness Ideas Naive People
The demand that Islam makes of women is to not attract attention to yourself, and if you are in a secular society, that attire does exactly that, and it is a political symbol, no longer religious.
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Attraction Demand Islam Religious Society Symbol Woman
But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can’t acquire knowledge.
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Doubt Human Knowledge Point Stand
Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists or sympathetic to terrorists. Equating all Muslims with terrorism is stupid and wrong. But acknowledging that there is a link between Islam and terror is appropriate and necessary.
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Acknowledgement Equation Majority Necessary Stupidity Terrorist Wrong
Reality is not easy, but all this make-believe doesn’t make it easier.
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Believe Easy Reality
We must reclaim and retake feminism from our fellow idiotic women.
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Feminism Ourselves Woman
Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.
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Compare Drinking History Ideas Reading

Young people, some of whom are not born into the faith, are being fired up by preachers using basic Islamic scripture and mobilized to wage jihad by radical imams who represent themselves as legitimate Muslim clergymen.

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