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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.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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
The West is duly terrified. But it should not be surprised.
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Surprise Terrify
We must reclaim and retake feminism from our fellow idiotic women.
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Feminism Ourselves Woman
When I was with the Labor Party, I’d get into trouble because the party bosses determined that some of what I wrote, or proposed to write about, wasn’t conducive to their policies or to electoral success.
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Determination Myself Party Policy Success Trouble Writing
I assume the closest members of my family don’t actually want to kill me, but the truth is that I have shamed and hurt them; they have to deal with the outrage that my public statements cause, and undoubtedly some members of my clan do want to kill me for that.
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Assume Close Doubt Family Kill Member Myself Public Statement
Bear true witness, even if it be against yourselves, your parents or your family.
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Family Parents True Yourself
In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God’s holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only in your private life.
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The idea that if people are just friendly and demonstrate they want peace, that will be answered with good will – that is really naive.
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Answer Friendly Goodness Ideas Naive People
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
I want people to emphasize life before death as opposed to life after death.
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Death Life Myself People
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.
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Atheist Islam Necessary Please Yourself
They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country’s life and I took it.
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Chance Country Decision Immigrant Life Participate
Women covering their heads is traditional, but now we’re seeing more and more women covering themselves from head to toe. This is said to be for religious reasons but it’s actually the conflation of religion and politics – every political movement has its slogans, flags and dress.
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Head Movement Politics Reason Religious See Woman
My first experience in the Netherlands was very pleasant, extremely pleasant. I mean, I got my residence permit, refugee status, within four weeks of arrival. People treated me extremely well.
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You have to let individuals make their own choices and respect that, even if it’s your own child. And that’s what was taken away from me. My father passed away thinking I still had to go back to his way of believing.
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Believe Choice Death Father Freedom Independent Myself Thinking Willing
Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion and culture any more than we would tolerate violent oppression espoused by any other bully in the name of a twisted rationale.
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