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I love life more than I love death.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.
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Injustice Silence Time
Avoiding offense means that we don’t accept each other as equals.
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Acceptance Avoid Equality Offense Partner
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
There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance.
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Difference Huge Tolerance
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
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
If we don’t take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.
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Measurement Right
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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Experience Home People Pleasant Resident Treat
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
Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.
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Compare Drinking History Ideas Reading
People ask me if I have some kind of death wish, to keep saying the things I do. The answer is no: I would like to keep living. However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.
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Death Injustice Kind Live People Silence Time
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
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
Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between Islam and the west. But a radical minority of Muslims firmly believes that Islam is under siege, and is committed to winning the holy war it has declared against the West.
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Believe Civilization Commitment Declare Holy Islam Live People War
I wanted secular, non-Muslim people to stop kidding themselves that Islam is peace and tolerance.
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Islam Peace People Tolerance
All my life I have been a nomad.
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Life Myself Traveler

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