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It's wrong to treat Muslims as if they will never find their John Stuart Mill. Christianity and Judaism show people can be very dogmatic and then open up.

~Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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Even with protection, even with death threats, I can publish, I can travel and I can live the life that I want and not the one my parents want or some imam somewhere thinks I should live.

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The idea that if people are just friendly and demonstrate they want peace, that will be answered with good will - that is really naive.

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When your life is threatened, whether it's by human beings or by disease or whatever, you come to appreciate life.

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You have to let individuals make their own choices and respect that, even if it's your own child. And that's what was taken away from me. My father passed away thinking I still had to go back to his way of believing.

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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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I think of Canada, first and foremost, in terms of space. The amount of space available is breathtaking.

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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 accept that there are multitudes seeking God, seeking meaning, and so on, but if they reject atheism, I would rather they became modern-day Catholics or Jews than that they became Muslims.

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The concept of God in Jewish orthodoxy is one where you're having constant quarrels with God. Where I come from, in Islam, the only concept of God is you submit to Him and you obey His commands; no quarreling allowed.

~Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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Biography

Nationality: Dutch

Type: Politician

Born: November 13th, 1969

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