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

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: November 13
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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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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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I call myself a liberal - a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill.
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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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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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As a woman you are better off in life earning your own money. You couldn't prevent your husband from leaving you or taking another wife, but you could have some of your dignity if you didn't have to beg him for financial support.
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In 1985 as a teenager in Kenya, I was an adamant member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.
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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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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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It takes a long time to dissolve the bars of a mental cage.
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But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge.
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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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I want people to emphasize life before death as opposed to life after death.
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I wanted secular, non-Muslim people to stop kidding themselves that Islam is peace and tolerance.
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I would rather clean than beg.
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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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Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.
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My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.
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I do not believe in God, angels and the hereafter.
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