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Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other ‘isms,’ it’s far superior.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I’d like Muslims to look at their religion as a set of beliefs that they can appraise critically and pick and choose from.
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Choice Criticism Muslim Myself Region
Avoiding offense means that we don’t accept each other as equals.
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Acceptance Avoid Equality Offense Partner
My conscience is informed by reason. It’s like Kant’s categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.
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Behavior Conscience Information Yourself
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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Alone Formal Leadership
You’ll be pleased to hear, Christopher, that I am no longer a Muslim liberal but an atheist, I find that it obviates the necessity for any cognitive dissonance.
AYAAN HIRSI ALI

Atheist Islam Necessary Please Yourself
If we don’t take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.
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Measurement Right
There are some mosques with facilities for women; it’s usually a back room with a back-door entrance.
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Entrance Facility Religious Woman
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
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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Born Faith Islam People Religion Scripture Young
Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.
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Conscience Freedom Speech
I think of Canada, first and foremost, in terms of space. The amount of space available is breathtaking.
AYAAN HIRSI ALI

Breathe Foremost Myself Space Thinking
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
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
It takes a long time to dissolve the bars of a mental cage.
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Cage Dissolve Mental Time
The West is duly terrified. But it should not be surprised.
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Surprise Terrify
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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Difference God Islam Purity Religion Submission

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