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Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Ayaan Hirsi Ali (/aɪˈjɑːn ˈhɪərsi ˈɑːli/; Dutch: [aːˈjaːn ˈɦiːrsi ˈaːli] ( listen); born Ayaan Hirsi Magan,[a] 13 November 1969) is a Somali-born Dutch-American activist, feminist, author, scholar and former politician. She received international attention as a critic of Islam and advocate for the rights and self-determination of Muslim women, actively opposing forced marriage, honor violence, child marriage and female genital mutilation. She has founded an organisation for the defense of women's rights, the AHA Foundation.

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You'll be pleased to hear, Christopher, that I am no longer a Muslim liberal but an atheist [. . . . ] I find that it obviates the necessity for any cognitive dissonance.

Atheism, Atheist, Cognitive, Cognitive Dissonance, Obviates

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.

Course, Islam, Majority, Muslims, Stupid, Terrorism

Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.

Conscience, Freedom, Freedom Of Speech, Speech

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.

Leader, Leaders, Maim, Men, Religious

My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.

Categorical, Categorical Imperative, Informed, Reason, Wish

After the horrific massacre Wednesday at the French weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, perhaps the West will finally put away its legion of useless tropes trying to deny the relationship between violence and radical Islam.

Charlie Hebdo, Islam, Magazine, Massacre, Satirical, Trying

. . . Bin Laden's quotes from the Quaran resonated in my brain: "When you meet the unbelievers, strike them in the neck. " "If you do not go out and fight, God will punish you severely and put others in your place. " "Wherever you find the polytheists, kill them, seize them, besiege them, ambush them. " "You who believe, do not take the Jews and Christians as friends; they are allies only to each other. Anyone who takes them as an ally becomes one of them.

Believe, Brain, Christian, Fighting, Take, Unbelievers

If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.

Rights, Two, Netherlands, Extreme, Measures

Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.

Drinking, History, Reading, Trousers, Wine

There are some mosques with facilities for women; it's usually a back room with a back-door entrance.

Doors, Entrance, Mosques, Rooms, Women

The veil deliberately marks women as private and restricted property, nonpersons. The veil sets women apart from men and apart from the world; it restrains them, confines them, grooms them for docility. A mind can be cramped just as a body may be, and a Muslim veil blinkers both your vision and your destiny. It is the mark of a kind of apartheid, not the domination of a race but of a sex.

Deliberately, Destiny, Men, Nonpersons, Sex

Reality is not easy, but all this make-believe doesn't make it easier.

Believe, Easier, Easy, Reality

As a woman you are better off in life earning your own money. You couldn't prevent your husband from leaving you or taking another wife, but you could have some of your dignity if you didn't have to beg him for financial support.

Husband, Life, Support, Wife, Woman

All my life I have been a nomad.

Has Beens, Life, Nomad

I want people to emphasize life before death as opposed to life after death.

People, Want, Before Death, Life, Emphasize

However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.

Healing, Injustice, Said, Silence, Times

The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets.

Appease, Enemy, Gets, Oblige, Self

I would rather clean than beg.

Beg, Clean

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.

Believe, Children, Constitutes, Life, Real

It was Friday, July 24, 1992, when I stepped on the train. Every year I think of it. I see it as my real birthday: the birth of me as a person, making decisions about my life on my own. I was not running away from Islam, or to democracy. I didn't have any big ideas then. I was just a young girl and wanted some way to be me; so I bolted into the unknown.

Friday, Girl, Person, Running, Train, Young

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