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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.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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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Administration Analysis Mistake Right Wrong
I call myself a liberal – a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill.
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Call Liberal Myself
I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.
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Argument Judgment Victim
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
Every time I went on TV I got a threat.
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Myself Threatening Time
My brother thinks it is very, very bad that I left Islam. My half-sister wants to convert me back; I want to convert her to Western values. My mum is terrified that when I die, and we all go to God, I will be burned.
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Bad Brother Burn Death Family Mom Myself Religion Thinking
As a woman you are better off in life earning your own money. You couldn’t prevent your husband from leaving you or taking another wife, but you could have some of your dignity if you didn’t have to beg him for financial support.
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Better Earning Financial Leaving Life Support Woman
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
It takes a long time to dissolve the bars of a mental cage.
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Cage Dissolve Mental Time
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
Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.
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Conscience Freedom Speech
My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam.
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Friendship Islam Murder Myself Religious
Bear true witness, even if it be against yourselves, your parents or your family.
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Family Parents True Yourself
I love life more than I love death.
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Choice Death Life Love Myself
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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Enlightenment Knowledge Life Myself Separate State Talk

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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