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All Quotes by author - Ayaan Hirsi Ali
" All my life I have been a nomad. "
My Life
All My Life
Been
" Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals. "
Offense
Other
Accept
" A Western woman is not her brother's or her father's property. She's just herself. She can choose her own lifestyle. But in a Muslim family, the honor of the man is between the legs of a woman. "
Father
Brother
Family
" Every time I went on TV I got a threat. "
Every
Time
Threat
" 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. "
You
Car
Shopping
" I am not against migration. It is simply pragmatic to restrict migration, while at the same time encouraging integration and fighting discrimination. I support the idea of the free movement of goods, people, money and jobs in Europe. "
Free
Time
Money
" I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves. "
Living
Like
Slaves
" I'd love to go and visit the Mosque in Mecca again, just for the sheer beauty of it, not for God - much the way a non-Catholic might go to Vatican City because of the beauty of the buildings and the artifacts. "
God
Love
Beauty
" I do not believe in God, angels and the hereafter. "
Hereafter
Angels
Believe
" I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream about it. "
Realistic
Me
Country
" If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well. "
Well
Nation
Young
" If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights. "
Rights
Two
Torn
" 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. "
Allah
See
Pure
" I would rather clean than beg. "
Beg
Than
Would
" Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion and culture any more than we would tolerate violent oppression espoused by any other bully in the name of a twisted rationale. "
Us
Women
Religion
" Muslim leaders should ask themselves what exactly their relationship is to a political movement that encourages young men to kill and maim on religious grounds. "
Relationship
Young
Ask
" My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you. "
Reason
You
Others
" My first experience in the Netherlands was very pleasant, extremely pleasant. I mean, I got my residence permit, refugee status, within four weeks of arrival. People treated me extremely well. "
Mean
Experience
First
" My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam. "
Friend
Been
Islam
" Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists or sympathetic to terrorists. Equating all Muslims with terrorism is stupid and wrong. "
Majority
Stupid
Terrorism
" 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. "
Saying
Wish
Silence
" 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. "
People
Slavery
Time
" The people who believe themselves to be on the left, and who defend the agents of Islam in the name of tolerance and culture, are being rightwing. Not just rightwing. Extreme rightwing. I don't understand how you can be so upset about the Christian right and just ignore the Islamic right. I'm talking about equality. "
Name
Equality
People
" There are some mosques with facilities for women; it's usually a back room with a back-door entrance. "
Women
Room
Entrance
" 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. "
Chance
Country
I Am
" When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo van Gogh, it will be a huge step forward. "
Life
Forward
Will
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