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Ayaan Hirsi Ali Quotes
Ayaan Hirsi Ali Quotes
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Dutch
Politician
Born:
Nov 13
,
1969
God
Islam
Life
Me
People
You
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Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Other
Accept
Equals
Offense
Means
Avoiding
Each
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
You
Culture
People
Equality
Islam
Tolerance
Believe
Christian
Extreme
About
Name
Talking
Islamic
Understand
How
Left
Just
Being
Upset
Themselves
Agents
Ignore
Who
Right
Christian Right
Defend
My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Islam
Van
Van Gogh
My Friend
Having
Toward
Reverent
Been
Friend
Gogh
Dutch
Filmmaker
My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
You
Wish
Others
Would
Imperative
Categorical
Like
Behave
Behaved
Informed
Kant
Reason
Conscience
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.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Relationship
Political
Men
Young
Muslim
Religious
Exactly
Leaders
Encourages
Political Movement
Movement
Young Men
Themselves
Ask
Should
Grounds
I assume the closest members of my family don't actually want to kill me, but the truth is that I have shamed and hurt them; they have to deal with the outrage that my public statements cause, and undoubtedly some members of my clan do want to kill me for that.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Truth
Family
Me
Hurt
Truth Is
Cause
Assume
Statements
Clan
Members
Some
Shamed
Outrage
Deal
Undoubtedly
Closest
Want
Public
Them
Public Statements
Actually
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
Culture
Women
Oppression
Other
Recognize
Would
More
Rationale
Longer
Name
Bully
Than
Any
Us
Tolerate
Let Us
Twisted
Violent
If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Nation
Young
Status
Superpower
Could
Well
Make
I would rather clean than beg.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Would
Rather
Clean
Beg
Than
Every time I went on TV I got a threat.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Time
Every
Every Time
TV
Threat
Got
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
Life
Will
Arab
Out
Van
Van Gogh
Directed
Lead
Step
Lead Role
Step Forward
Equivalent
Huge
Role
Gogh
Brian
Muhammad
Forward
Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists or sympathetic to terrorists. Equating all Muslims with terrorism is stupid and wrong.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Terrorism
Stupid
Overwhelming
Muslims
Wrong
Majority
Course
Terrorists
Sympathetic
I call myself a liberal - a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Myself
Liberal
John
Classical
Stuart
Call
Mill
It's wrong to treat Muslims as if they will never find their John Stuart Mill. Christianity and Judaism show people can be very dogmatic and then open up.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
People
Treat
Will
Christianity
Muslims
Find
John
Stuart
Never
Open
Wrong
Judaism
Dogmatic
Up
Very
Then
Show
Show People
Mill
Even with protection, even with death threats, I can publish, I can travel and I can live the life that I want and not the one my parents want or some imam somewhere thinks I should live.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Life
Death
Travel
Protection
Parents
Somewhere
Live
Publish
Some
Threats
Want
Should
Even
Thinks
When your life is threatened, whether it's by human beings or by disease or whatever, you come to appreciate life.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Life
You
Whatever
Threatened
Come
Disease
Human
Human Beings
Whether
Your
Beings
Appreciate
You have to let individuals make their own choices and respect that, even if it's your own child. And that's what was taken away from me. My father passed away thinking I still had to go back to his way of believing.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Me
You
Respect
Father
Own
Thinking
Back
Way
Had
Taken
Individuals
Make
Passed
Still
Go
His
His Way
Child
Choices
Your
Even
Away
Believing
What I find daunting always is to stand on a stage and talk to people, whether they agree with me or not.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Me
People
Stage
Find
Daunting
Talk
Always
Whether
Stand
Agree
I think of Canada, first and foremost, in terms of space. The amount of space available is breathtaking.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Space
First
Think
Terms
Foremost
Canada
Available
Breathtaking
Amount
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
God
Jews
Muslims
Atheism
Would
Seeking
Rather
Accept
Became
Catholics
Than
Modern-Day
Meaning
Multitudes
Reject
I'd like Muslims to look at their religion as a set of beliefs that they can appraise critically and pick and choose from.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Religion
Muslims
Critically
Pick
Pick And Choose
Like
Look
Choose
Beliefs
Set
Appraise
Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other 'isms,' it's far superior.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Capitalism
Not Perfect
Superior
Other
Liberal
Perfect
Far
Compared
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
Me
Experience
People
First
Pleasant
Extremely
Status
Netherlands
Weeks
Well
Within
Got
Permit
Arrival
Very
Refugee
Mean
Residence
Four
Treated
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.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Culture
Women
People
Girl
Seen
Criminal
Respectful
Immigrant
Imperative
Abuse
Principled
Blinded
Well-Meaning
Women And Girls
Overwhelmed
While
Sensitive
Holland
Ignoring
Multiculturalism
The problem is that those of us who were born into Islam and who don't want to live according to scripture - we don't have what the Jews have, which is a rabbinical tradition that allows you to ask questions. We also don't have the church tradition that the Christians have.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
You
Problem
Church
Islam
Live
Jews
Those
Born
Also
Tradition
Were
Questions
According
Want
Which
Scripture
Ask
Us
Who
Christians
I come from a world where the word 'trauma' doesn't exist, because we are too poor. I didn't have an easy life compared to the average European. But compared to the average African, it wasn't all that bad.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Life
World
Word
Too
Bad
Easy
Come
Because
Exist
African
Where
Poor
Average
European
Trauma
Compared
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