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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.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well.
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Nation Status Well Young
Avoiding offense means that we don’t accept each other as equals.
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Acceptance Avoid Equality Offense Partner
The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets.
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Bold Enemy Obligation
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
There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance.
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Difference Huge Tolerance
Bear true witness, even if it be against yourselves, your parents or your family.
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Family Parents True Yourself
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
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
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
However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.
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Injustice Silence Time
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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Encouragement Ground Movement Muslim Politics Relationship Religious
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
No one in the American Enterprise imposes their beliefs. We clash, and I think that’s what the West is all about.
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Belief Impose Oneself Thinking
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
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.
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Amplify Culture Race Religion Welcome
Unlike the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth, the umma, or Muslim community, has no symbolic leader, let alone a formal one.
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Alone Formal Leadership
We must reclaim and retake feminism from our fellow idiotic women.
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Feminism Ourselves Woman
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
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
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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Apologize Defend Individual Liberal Movement People Right Treatment
The Christian take on Hellfire seems less dramatic than the Muslim vision, which I grew up with, but Christian magical thinking appeals to me no more than my mother’s angels and djinns.
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Angel Drama Islam Magic Mom Myself Thinking Version
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 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
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
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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Book Constitution Democracy Holy Life Privacy State
I see no difference between Islam and Islamism. Islam is defined as submission to the will of Allah, as it is described in the Koran. Islamism is just Islam in its most pure form.
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Difference God Islam Purity Religion Submission
In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and precious…. The first time she saw a white person my grandmother was in her thirties: she thought this person’s skin had burned off.
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Burn Herself Iron Live Metal Person Precious Rare System Time Writing

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