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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 have had to pay a price for leaving Islam and for speaking out. I have to pay for round-the-clock security because of the death threats against me.
AYAAN HIRSI ALI

Death Islam Leaving Myself Pay Price Threat
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
Every time I went on TV I got a threat.
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Myself Threatening Time
Bear true witness, even if it be against yourselves, your parents or your family.
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Family Parents True Yourself
Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.
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Coward One Liner Tolerance
Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage.
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Door Escape Islam Open Prison Religion Stay
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.
AYAAN HIRSI ALI

Behavior Conscience Information Yourself
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
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
There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance.
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Difference Huge Tolerance
I call myself a liberal – a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill.
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Call Liberal 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
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
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

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