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We must defend democracy using its own mechanisms, through explaining and exemplifying its merits rather than through the heavy-handed and arbitrary silencing of its critics. This is how we will build a sustainable alternative to the contorted worldview of extremists. Deeyah Khan
Democracy Worldview Will Build Own Extremists Must Arbitrary Critics Silencing Rather Through Merits Alternative How Than Sustainable Heavy-Handed Explaining Using Mechanisms Defend
The self-proclaimed Islamic State cannot tolerate diversity, which is why we must celebrate it. Deeyah Khan
Celebrate Diversity State Must Islamic Cannot Which Tolerate Why
Extremist movements are driven by their inability to tolerate the basic human fact of pluralism. They refuse to accept the natural cultural and religious diversity of our world, seeking to impose their own beliefs and behaviours as a universal pattern for humanity. Deeyah Khan
Natural Humanity World Diversity Own Our Extremist Our World Religious Pluralism Seeking Fact Driven Accept Impose Cultural Human Refuse Movements Inability Pattern Tolerate Beliefs Basic Universal
The Islamic State does not want us to open our doors to their refugees. It wants them to be hopeless and desperate. It does not want us to enjoy ourselves with our families and friends in bars and concert halls, stadiums and restaurants. It wants us to huddle in our houses, within our own social groups, and close our doors in fear. Deeyah Khan
Fear Desperate Hopeless Own Doors Enjoy State Our Ourselves Restaurants Open Concert Houses Islamic Within Does Halls Friends Close Families Refugees Stadiums Want Wants Social Them Us Bars Groups
Political and economic insecurity inevitably translates into insecurity in people's everyday lives, from lack of access to welfare to the increasing lack of security in the workplace. Deeyah Khan
People Welfare Political Insecurity Increasing Everyday Everyday Lives Security Economic Access Inevitably Lack Workplace Lives
Attacking racism and discrimination is a very important way to work against radicalisation. Deeyah Khan
Work Racism Important Way Attacking Very Discrimination Against
We need a broader perspective on what counter-radicalisation means. Deeyah Khan
Perspective Broader Means Need
Freedom of expression is essential for feminists and dissidents in the Muslim world. Deeyah Khan
Freedom World Muslim Muslim World Freedom Of Expression Feminists Essential Expression
As a girl, I abandoned a promising singing career due to violent harassment by Islamists. Deeyah Khan
Girl Singing Abandoned Promising Islamists Due Harassment Career Violent
Our freedoms are shared freedoms: they are bound up in each other. The ability to confront oppression in the guise of religion is linked to our ability to worship as we choose: both are acts of expression. Deeyah Khan
Religion Oppression Other Our Worship Guise Ability Both Shared Bound Freedoms Up Linked Confront Choose Each Expression Acts
I come from a Muslim family. The label 'Muslim' is one aspect of me, but it's not the only part of me. Deeyah Khan
Family Me One Aspect Muslim Only Part Come Label Aspect
Music, performance, and a woman is very rarely accepted within Muslim communities. Deeyah Khan
Music Woman Muslim Rarely Performance Within Accepted Very Communities
Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wanted... to build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home. Edvard Grieg
Home Happy Men Build Heights Bach Churches Temples Only Feel Like Beethoven Artists Wanted Which Might
Most couples manage to cooperate on child raising - for us, our brain project is our third child, so nothing different, really. Edvard Moser
Nothing Our Project Most Couples Brain Child Manage Different Us Really Cooperate Raising Third
It was quite difficult to find a place to do what we wanted, namely to study the neurological basis of behaviour and especially learning and memory, which we were particularly interested in. Edvard Moser
Learning Memory Difficult Find Neurological Study Namely Particularly Were Behaviour Quite Wanted Place Which Interested Basis
Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes. Edvard Munch
Youth People Young Must Prosper Talented Talented People Go Very Paint Painters
This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution. Edvard Munch
Art Revolution Painting Frames Kind Civil Following Civil Wars Bourgeois French French Revolution Dealer Came After Wars Large
When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness. Edvard Munch
Good Enemies Find Likeness Always His Person Paint Portrait
A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself. Edvard Munch
Good Other Except Himself Person Believes Portraits
The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose. Edvard Munch
Spiritual Made Sense Poems Records Prose Partly Diary Experiences Ordinary Ordinary Sense Lengthy Notes
I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me. Edvard Munch
Myself Me Peace Build Otherwise Say Kind Something He Between She Model Wall Behind Might Confuses Paint
In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color. Edvard Munch
Fall Rise More Color Rembrandt Am Line Than Michelangelo Common Interested
Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards? Edvard Munch
Backwards Developed Go Why Technique
The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men. Edvard Munch
Man Money Men First Rich Steals Gives He Over Hearts Rich Man Then Who Twice
To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction. Edvard Munch
Eyes Smell Gone Damp Abandoned Out See More Only Had Put Like Perhaps Does Been Die Cellar Any Being Door Anything Cannot Notices Slammed Shut
I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter. Edvard Munch
People Relatives Will Difficult Earth Find Religious Religious People Rate Conceive Continue Friends Any Afterlife Conversations Many Believing Here Hereafter Christians Interrupted Imagine
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