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Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Philosopher)

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.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali path

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.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali will

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.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali time

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.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali experience

I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned English.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali ya

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.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali love

Young people, some of whom are not born into the faith, are being fired up by preachers using basic Islamic scripture and mobilized to wage jihad by radical imams who represent themselves as legitimate Muslim clergymen.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali faith

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.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali religion

Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other 'isms,' it's far superior.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali capitalism

I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali women

I was a Muslim once, remember, and it was when I was most devout that I was most full of hate.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali hate

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.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali war

My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali war

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.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali time

We who don't want radical Islam to spread must compete with the agents of radical Islam. I want to see what would happen if Christians, feminists and Enlightenment thinkers were to start proselytizing in the Muslim community.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali art

I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream about it.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali dream

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

The idea that if people are just friendly and demonstrate they want peace, that will be answered with good will - that is really naive.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali people

Unlike the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth, the umma, or Muslim community, has no symbolic leader, let alone a formal one.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali wealth

Over the course of my life, I have made many transitions - most of them taking me further away from my Somali roots and steadily toward the enlightened mentality of Western democracy.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali life

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.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali people

I accept that there are multitudes seeking God, seeking meaning, and so on, but if they reject atheism, I would rather they became modern-day Catholics or Jews than that they became Muslims.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali atheism

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.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali life

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.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali death

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