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I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I’d like Muslims to look at their religion as a set of beliefs that they can appraise critically and pick and choose from.
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Choice Criticism Muslim Myself Region
There are some mosques with facilities for women; it’s usually a back room with a back-door entrance.
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Entrance Facility Religious Woman
Avoiding offense means that we don’t accept each other as equals.
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Acceptance Avoid Equality Offense Partner
Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.
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Conscience Freedom Speech
I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.
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Argument Judgment Victim
I call myself a liberal – a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill.
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Call Liberal Myself
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
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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Name Oppression Recognition Religion Tolerance
The West is duly terrified. But it should not be surprised.
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Surprise Terrify
I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned English.
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English Gratitude Language Learning Move
Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists or sympathetic to terrorists. Equating all Muslims with terrorism is stupid and wrong. But acknowledging that there is a link between Islam and terror is appropriate and necessary.
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Acknowledgement Equation Majority Necessary Stupidity Terrorist Wrong
We have to start with the little babies who are born now, socialize them in freedom and critical thinking. We don’t have to throw away their faith. People confuse the two, thinking if you are enlightened that means apostasy. It doesn’t.
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Born Critical Enlightenment Freedom Social Start Thinking Yourself
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
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
We had a world dominated by the Soviet Union on the one hand, and the Americans on the other hand. They called it the Cold War. But it wasn’t cold. I am someone who comes from the third world. In the third world, the cold war wasn’t cold. Millions had been killed. It was a proxy war.
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Domination Hands Kill War World
Every time you take a train, step into your car, walk into the shopping mall, go to the airport – every single time, something could happen. That’s how terrorism works.
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Terrorism Time Train Work Yourself

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