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My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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
I want people to emphasize life before death as opposed to life after death.
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Death Life Myself People
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 love life more than I love death.
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Choice Death Life Love 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
But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can’t acquire knowledge.
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Doubt Human Knowledge Point Stand
Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.
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Freedom Liberty Offend
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
There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance.
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Difference Huge Tolerance
I come from a world where the word ‘trauma’ doesn’t exist, because we are too poor. I didn’t have an easy life compared to the average European. But compared to the average African, it wasn’t all that bad.
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Bad Existence Myself Trauma Word World
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
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
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
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
All my life I have been a nomad.
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Life Myself Traveler
Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other ‘isms,’ it’s far superior.
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Capitalism Liberal Perfection Superior

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