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In 1985 as a teenager in Kenya, I was an adamant member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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
The West is duly terrified. But it should not be surprised.
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Surprise Terrify
All my life I have been a nomad.
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Life Myself Traveler
I don’t believe there is such a thing as ‘moderate Islam.’ I think it’s better to talk about degrees of belief and degrees of practice.
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Belief Believe Better Degree Islam Modern Patience Practice
In the real world, equal respect for all cultures doesn’t translate into a rich mosaic of colorful and proud peoples interacting peacefully while maintaining a delightful diversity of food and craftwork. It translates into closed pockets of oppression, ignorance, and abuse.
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Abuse Culture Equality Ignorance Maintain Oppression People Reality Respect Tradition
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
If we don’t take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.
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Measurement Right
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
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
I have had to pay a price for leaving Islam and for speaking out. I have to pay for round-the-clock security because of the death threats against me.
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Death Islam Leaving Myself Pay Price Threat
I do not believe in God, angels and the hereafter.
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Angel Believe God Myself
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
Reality is not easy, but all this make-believe doesn’t make it easier.
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Believe Easy Reality
In 2010, I suggested that if you are a good Muslim with a good conscience, go and look for a better God, and I think that was juvenile of me.
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Conscience Goodness Myself Thinking
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.
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Breathe Foremost Myself Space Thinking

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