I confront the European elite’s self-image as tolerant ‘while under their noses women are living like slaves.
AYAAN HIRSI ALIThe 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 more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets.
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In 1985 as a teenager in Kenya, I was an adamant member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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All my life I have been a nomad.
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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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I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned English.
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Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.
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We have to start with the little babies who are born now, socialize them in freedom and critical thinking. We don’t have to throw away their faith. People confuse the two, thinking if you are enlightened that means apostasy. It doesn’t.
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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.
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Bear true witness, even if it be against yourselves, your parents or your family.
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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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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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Every time I went on TV I got a threat.
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I talk about a Christianity that is enlightened enough to separate spirituality from the rest of life. Not just church and state, but knowledge and church.
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I do not believe in God, angels and the hereafter.
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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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