Muslim leaders should ask themselves what exactly their relationship is to a political movement that encourages young men to kill and maim… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
In 2010, I suggested that if you are a good Muslim with a good conscience, go and look for a better God,… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
I was a Muslim once, remember, and it was when I was most devout that I was most full of hate. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists or sympathetic to terrorists. Equating all Muslims with terrorism is stupid and… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
I see no difference between Islam and Islamism. Islam is defined as submission to the will of Allah, as it is described… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Islam is not a race...Islam is simply a set of beliefs, and it is not 'Islamophobic' to say Islam is incompatible with… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Unlike the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth, the umma, or Muslim community, has no symbolic leader, let alone a formal one. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
I wanted secular, non-Muslim people to stop kidding themselves that Islam is peace and tolerance. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
“Wishful thinking about the peaceful tolerance of Islam cannot interpret away this reality: hands are still cut off, women still stoned and… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
I accept that there are multitudes seeking God, seeking meaning, and so on, but if they reject atheism, I would rather they… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
It was Friday, July 24, 1992, when I stepped on the train. Every year I think of it. I see it as… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
I don't believe in hell and heaven anymore. Or angels. I think Islam is a superstition like every other superstition. But now… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists or sympathetic to terrorists. Equating all Muslims with terrorism is stupid and… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between Islam and… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
After the horrific massacre Wednesday at the French weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, perhaps the West will finally put away its legion… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
The demand that Islam makes of women is to not attract attention to yourself, and if you are in a secular society,… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
“Almost all the angry letters I received were from Muslims. People called me an Uncle Tom, white on the inside, a traitor… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
By declaring our Prophet infallible and not permitting ourselves to question him, we Muslims had set up a static tyranny. The Prophet… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
“Many well-meaning Dutch people have told me in all earnestness that nothing in Islamic culture incites abuse of women, that this is… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
“Multiculturalism should not mean that we tolerate another culture’s intolerance. If we do in fact support diversity, women’s rights, and gay rights,… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
“It is always difficult to make the transition to a modern world. I moved from the world of faith to the world… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
“On September 16,1978, there was an eclipse of the moon in Riyadh. Late one afternoon it became visible: a dark shadow moving… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
You'll be pleased to hear, Christopher, that I am no longer a Muslim liberal but an atheist […] I find that it… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
I have had to pay a price for leaving Islam and for speaking out. I have to pay for round-the-clock security because… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
It's wrong to treat Muslims as if they will never find their John Stuart Mill. Christianity and Judaism show people can be… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
“This was an infidel country, whose way of life we Muslims were supposed to oppose and reject. Why was it, then, so… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
“Multiculturalism should not mean that we tolerate another culture’s intolerance. If we do in fact support diversity, women’s rights, and gay rights,… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
The people who believe themselves to be on the left, and who defend the agents of Islam in the name of tolerance… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
There is one Islam, unreformed, but three sets of Muslims. Medina, Mecca, and. Dissidents, reformers, whatever you want to call them. The… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
“Unlike white commentators, who were hamstrung by the fear that they would be labeled racist, I could voice my criticisms of the… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
My brother thinks it is very, very bad that I left Islam. My half-sister wants to convert me back; I want to… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
A Western woman is not her brother's or her father's property. She's just herself. She can choose her own lifestyle. But in… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Young people, some of whom are not born into the faith, are being fired up by preachers using basic Islamic scripture and… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
The concept of God in Jewish orthodoxy is one where you're having constant quarrels with God. Where I come from, in Islam,… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
We who don't want radical Islam to spread must compete with the agents of radical Islam. I want to see what would… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
I'd like Muslims to look at their religion as a set of beliefs that they can appraise critically and pick and choose… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
“Force and rape are not an issue because he is a believing Muslim and he is an Osman Mahamud.” — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
I don't believe there is such a thing as 'moderate Islam.' I think it's better to talk about degrees of belief and… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
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… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned English. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
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… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
I see no difference between Islam and Islamism. Islam is defined as submission to the will of Allah, as it is described in the… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
I want people to emphasize life before death as opposed to life after death. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
“Wishful thinking about the peaceful tolerance of Islam cannot interpret away this reality: hands are still cut off, women still stoned and enslaved, just… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
By declaring our Prophet infallible and not permitting ourselves to question him, we Muslims had set up a static tyranny. The Prophet Muhammad attempted… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
“The will of little girls is stifled by Islam. By the time they menstruate they are rendered voiceless. They are reared to become submissive… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
I am not against migration. It is simply pragmatic to restrict migration, while at the same time encouraging integration and fighting discrimination. I support… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
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