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

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  People, Want, Before Death

  "'Kelly File' special: Defying the Sword". "The Kelly File," May 24, 2015, www.foxnews.com. May 26, 2015.

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• I don't believe there is such a thing as 'moderate Islam.' I think it's better to talk about degrees of belief and degrees of practice.

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  Believe, Thinking, Practice

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

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  Perfect, Isms, Capitalism

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• We must reclaim and retake feminism from our fellow idiotic women.

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  Feminism, Idiotic, Fellows

  "Hirsi Ali slams feminism's 'trivial BS'" by Ashe Schow, www.washingtonexaminer.com. November 20, 2014.

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• What matters is abuse, and how it is anchored in a religion that denies women their rights as humans. What matters is that atrocities against women and children are carried out in Europe. What matters is that governments and societies must stop hiding behind a hollow pretense of tolerance so that they can recognize and deal with the problem.

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  Children, Europe, What Matters

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “Infidel”, p.326, Simon and Schuster

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• We have to start with the little babies who are born now, socialize them in freedom and critical thinking. We don't have to throw away their faith. People confuse the two, thinking if you are enlightened that means apostasy. It doesn't.

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  Baby, Mean, Thinking

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• The demand that Islam makes of women is to not attract attention to yourself, and if you are in a secular society, that attire does exactly that, and it is a political symbol, no longer religious.

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  Religious, Secular Society, Political

  "The Interview: Ayaan Hirsi Ali on reforming Islam". Interview with Brian Bethune, www.macleans.ca. April 13, 2015.

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• The Christian take on Hellfire seems less dramatic than the Muslim vision, which I grew up with, but Christian magical thinking appeals to me no more than my mother's angels and djinns.

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  Christian, Mother, Angel

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• I don't believe in hell and heaven anymore. Or angels. I think Islam is a superstition like every other superstition. But now because it's a superstition, unlike Christianity, that hasn't been tested and hasn't gone through a process of enlightenment, I think it's a dangerous superstition.

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  Believe, Angel, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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

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  Women, Self, Europe

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• 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.

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  People, Silence, Wish

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “Infidel”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Differences, Islam, Submission

  "The Refugee Who Rocked Islam: an Exclusive Interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali". Interview with Johann Hari, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 31, 2008.

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• In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only in your private life.

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  Book, Democracy, Important

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “The Caged Virgin: A Muslim Woman's Cry for Reason”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Believe, Reality, Easy

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “Infidel”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Mean, People, Netherlands

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• 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.

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  Charlie Hebdo, Islam, Trying

  "How to Answer the Paris Terror Attack". Article by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, www.metafilter.com. January 7, 2015.

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

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  Islam, Dutch, Vans

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• When I was with the Labor Party, I'd get into trouble because the party bosses determined that some of what I wrote, or proposed to write about, wasn't conducive to their policies or to electoral success.

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  Party, Writing, Boss

  "'The Trouble Is the West'". Interview with Rogier van Bakel, reason.com. October 10, 2007.

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• 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.

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  Islamic, People, Scripture

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• 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.

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  Cities, Catholic, Mosques

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

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  Doors, Mosques, Rooms

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• We had a world dominated by the Soviet Union on the one hand, and the Americans on the other hand. They called it the Cold War. But it wasn't cold. I am someone who comes from the third world. In the third world, the cold war wasn't cold. Millions had been killed. It was a proxy war.

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  War, Hands, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My brother thinks it is very, very bad that I left Islam. My half-sister wants to convert me back; I want to convert her to Western values. My mum is terrified that when I die, and we all go to God, I will be burned.

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  Brother, Thinking, Western Values

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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.

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  Atheist, Atheism, Cognitive Dissonance

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• 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.

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  Christian, Feminist, Community

  "The Feminist". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. May 21, 2010.

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