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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.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The Christian take on Hellfire seems less dramatic than the Muslim vision, which I grew up with, but Christian magical thinking appeals to me no more than my mother’s angels and djinns.
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Angel Drama Islam Magic Mom Myself Thinking Version
European children are educated in a narrative of human tolerance every day, and if you want to be sure to prevent a backlash, you should at least think of bringing Muslim children and teenagers into the fold of that narrative of tolerance.
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Children Education Human Narrative Tolerance Yourself
It takes a long time to dissolve the bars of a mental cage.
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Cage Dissolve Mental Time
Americans have always welcomed people of all backgrounds, religions, and races. It’s a spirit of tolerance, now energized and amplified by the cult of multiculturalism.
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Amplify Culture Race Religion Welcome
No one in the American Enterprise imposes their beliefs. We clash, and I think that’s what the West is all about.
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Belief Impose Oneself Thinking
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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Abuse Crime Ignorance Meaning Myself People Principle Respectful Woman
Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.
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Compare Drinking History Ideas Reading
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
I think of Canada, first and foremost, in terms of space. The amount of space available is breathtaking.
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Breathe Foremost Myself Space Thinking
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
As soon as something like Monty Python’s ‘The Life of Brian’ appears with a Muhammad figure as the main lead, directed by an Arabic Theo van Gogh, the controversial late Dutch filmmaker, we will have taken an enormous step forward.
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Appearance Controversial Life
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
But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can’t acquire knowledge.
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Doubt Human Knowledge Point Stand
Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.
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Conscience Freedom Speech
I lived in countries that had no democracy. so I don’t find myself in the same luxury as you do. You grew up in freedom, and you can spit on freedom because you don’t know what it is not to have freedom.
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Country Democracy Freedom Known Live Luxury Yourself
All my life I have been a nomad.
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Life Myself Traveler

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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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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