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They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country’s life and I took it.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.
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Conscience Freedom Speech
Islam is not a race. Islam is simply a set of beliefs, and it is not ‘Islamophobic’ to say Islam is incompatible with liberal democracy.
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Belief Democracy Islam Liberal Race Religion Simplicity
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
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
I call myself a liberal – a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill.
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Call Liberal Myself
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
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
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
I would rather clean than beg.
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Beg Cleaning One Liner
I love life more than I love death.
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Choice Death Life Love Myself
What I find daunting always is to stand on a stage and talk to people, whether they agree with me or not.
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Agreement Finding Myself Stage Stand
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
All my life I have been a nomad.
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Life Myself Traveler
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
If we don’t take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.
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Measurement Right

They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country’s life and I took it.

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