The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets.
AYAAN HIRSI ALIIn 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.
More Ayaan Hirsi Ali Quotes
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I’d love to go and visit the Mosque in Mecca again, just for the sheer beauty of it, not for God – much the way a non-Catholic might go to Vatican City because of the beauty of the buildings and the artifacts.
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Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other ‘isms,’ it’s far superior.
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There are some mosques with facilities for women; it’s usually a back room with a back-door entrance.
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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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The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and the appalling treatment of black people during the civil rights movement. At the same time, they want to continue to defend the rights of individuals.
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We must reclaim and retake feminism from our fellow idiotic women.
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I love life more than I love death.
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What we are now doing with the victory, and I agree with you if you condemn that and I condemn whole-heartedly the trivial bullshit it is to go after a man who makes a scientific breakthrough and all that we as women — organized women — do is to fret about his shirt?
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Muslim leaders should ask themselves what exactly their relationship is to a political movement that encourages young men to kill and main on religious grounds.
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My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam.
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Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.
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I would rather clean than beg.
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I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.
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I don’t have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it’s not realistic to daydream about it.
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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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