Ayaan Hirsi Ali Quotes - Page 4

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• There is one Islam, unreformed, but three sets of Muslims. Medina, Mecca, and. Dissidents, reformers, whatever you want to call them. The first group are the extremists and fundamentalists, the second the great mass of Muslims who just want to live their lives in peace, and the third are reformers.

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  Islam, Groups, Three

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

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• ...Bear true witness, even if it be against yourselves, your parents or your family.

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  Parent, Bears, Witness

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• Women covering their heads is traditional, but now we're seeing more and more women covering themselves from head to toe. This is said to be for religious reasons but it's actually the conflation of religion and politics - every political movement has its slogans, flags and dress.

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  Religious, Political, Covering

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

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

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  Father, Grateful, School

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• 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.

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  Girl, Friday, Running

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “Infidel”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Country, Broken, Daydreaming

  "Ayaan Hirsi Ali: 'Why are Muslims so hypersensitive?'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2010.

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• I'd like Muslims to look at their religion as a set of beliefs that they can appraise critically and pick and choose from.

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  Looks, Belief, Picks

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• As soon as something like Monty Python's 'The Life of Brian' appears with a Muhammad figure as the main lead, directed by an Arabic Theo van Gogh, the controversial late Dutch filmmaker, we will have taken an enormous step forward.

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  Roles, Steps, Muhammad

  "The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam". Book by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, 2004.

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• All my life I have been a nomad.

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  Nomad, Has Beens

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2011). “Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Hurt, Want, Causes

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2010). “Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Drinking, Reading, Wine

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “Infidel”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• Every time you take a train, step into your car, walk into the shopping mall, go to the airport - every single time, something could happen. That's how terrorism works.

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  Airports, Shopping, Car

  "Ayaan Hirsi Ali on why Christians should try to convert Muslims". Interview with Kate Fillion, www.macleans.ca. May 21, 2010.

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

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  Community, Leader, Kingdoms

  "The iPod and the Queen, the Kindle and the King" by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2009.

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• What I find daunting always is to stand on a stage and talk to people, whether they agree with me or not.

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  People, Stage, Agree

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• No one in the American Enterprise imposes their beliefs. We clash, and I think that's what the West is all about.

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  Thinking, West, Belief

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• The West is duly terrified. But it should not be surprised.

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  West, Notable, Should

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

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• 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.

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  Religious, Men, Leader

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• In 2010, I suggested that if you are a good Muslim with a good conscience, go and look for a better God, and I think that was juvenile of me.

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  Thinking, Looks, Juvenile

  "A fiery dissenter rethinks her views". Interview with Tunku Varadarajan, nytlive.nytimes.com. March 25, 2015.

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• I call myself a liberal - a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill.

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  Mills

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• In 1985 as a teenager in Kenya, I was an adamant member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

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  Teenager, Brotherhood, Kenya

  "Get Ready to Compete With the Muslim Brotherhood: Egypt Could Chart a ‘Third Way’" by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 8, 2011.

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

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  Rights, Two, Netherlands

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• I would rather clean than beg.

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  Clean

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• Every time I went on TV I got a threat.

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  Tvs, Threat

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• If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well.

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  Hope, Young, Wells

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