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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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Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: November 13
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I have had to pay a price for leaving Islam and for speaking out. I have to pay for round-the-clock security because of the death threats against me.
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The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and the appalling treatment of black people during the civil rights movement. At the same time, they want to continue to defend the rights of individuals.
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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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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.
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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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I would rather clean than beg.
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Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.
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I want people to emphasize life before death as opposed to life after death.
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Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.
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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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The West is duly terrified. But it should not be surprised.
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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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Reality is not easy, but all this make-believe doesn't make it easier.
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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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Islam is not a race...Islam is simply a set of beliefs, and it is not 'Islamophobic' to say Islam is incompatible with liberal democracy.
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In April 2006, a Dutch court ordered that I leave my safe-home that I was renting from the State. The judge concluded that my neighbors had a right to argue that they felt unsafe because of my presence in the building.
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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.
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In 1985 as a teenager in Kenya, I was an adamant member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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I wanted secular, non-Muslim people to stop kidding themselves that Islam is peace and tolerance.
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