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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.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I’d like Muslims to look at their religion as a set of beliefs that they can appraise critically and pick and choose from.
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Choice Criticism Muslim Myself Region
As soon as something like Monty Python’s ‘The Life of Brian’ appears with a Muhammad figure as the main lead, directed by an Arabic Theo van Gogh, the controversial late Dutch filmmaker, we will have taken an enormous step forward.
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Appearance Controversial Life
If we don’t take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.
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Measurement Right
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 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
I love life more than I love death.
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Choice Death Life Love Myself
I would rather clean than beg.
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Beg Cleaning One Liner
But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can’t acquire knowledge.
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Doubt Human Knowledge Point Stand
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
I wanted secular, non-Muslim people to stop kidding themselves that Islam is peace and tolerance.
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Islam Peace People Tolerance
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.
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Death Islam Leaving Myself Pay Price Threat
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
Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.
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Compare Drinking History Ideas Reading
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
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

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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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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