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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.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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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Break Country Myself Realistic
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
Bear true witness, even if it be against yourselves, your parents or your family.
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Family Parents True Yourself
I was a Muslim once, remember, and it was when I was most devout that I was most full of hate.
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Hate Myself Religion Remember
I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.
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Argument Judgment Victim
I do not believe in God, angels and the hereafter.
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Angel Believe God Myself
I wanted secular, non-Muslim people to stop kidding themselves that Islam is peace and tolerance.
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Islam Peace People Tolerance
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 conscience is informed by reason. It’s like Kant’s categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.
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Behavior Conscience Information Yourself
I think of Canada, first and foremost, in terms of space. The amount of space available is breathtaking.
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Breathe Foremost Myself Space Thinking
I love life more than I love death.
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Choice Death Life Love Myself
I believe that the dysfunctional Muslim family constitutes a real threat to the very fabric of western life. It is in the family that children are groomed to practise, promote and pass on the norms of their parents’ culture.
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Believe Culture Family Islam Life Myself Parents Western
All my life I have been a nomad.
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Life Myself Traveler
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
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
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

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 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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