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My conscience is informed by reason. It’s like Kant’s categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I wanted secular, non-Muslim people to stop kidding themselves that Islam is peace and tolerance.
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Islam Peace People Tolerance
However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.
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Injustice Silence Time
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
The mistake that the Bush administration should admit to is not so much that they made the wrong choices. They made the right analysis; they made the right choices. But what they did wrong was the execution of those choices. That was wrong.
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Administration Analysis Mistake Right Wrong
Every time you take a train, step into your car, walk into the shopping mall, go to the airport – every single time, something could happen. That’s how terrorism works.
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Terrorism Time Train Work Yourself
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
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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Chance Country Decision Immigrant Life Participate
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 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 April 2006, a Dutch court ordered that I leave my safe-home that I was renting from the State. The judge concluded that my neighbors had a right to argue that they felt unsafe because of my presence in the building.
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Argument Building Leaving Order Right State
Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists or sympathetic to terrorists. Equating all Muslims with terrorism is stupid and wrong. But acknowledging that there is a link between Islam and terror is appropriate and necessary.
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Acknowledgement Equation Majority Necessary Stupidity Terrorist Wrong
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
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
In 1985 as a teenager in Kenya, I was an adamant member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Adamant Brother Islam
Women covering their heads is traditional, but now we’re seeing more and more women covering themselves from head to toe. This is said to be for religious reasons but it’s actually the conflation of religion and politics – every political movement has its slogans, flags and dress.
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Head Movement Politics Reason Religious See Woman
My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam.
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Friendship Islam Murder Myself Religious

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