I wanted secular, non-Muslim people to stop kidding themselves that Islam is peace and tolerance. — 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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“The Muslim veil, the different sorts of masks and beaks and "burkas", are all gradations of mental slavery. (...) The veil deliberately… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
“this reaction. This was on college campuses, exactly the kind of environment where I had expected curiosity, lively debate, and, yes, the… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
The veil deliberately marks women as private and restricted property, nonpersons. The veil sets women apart from men and apart from the… — 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 believe that the dysfunctional Muslim family constitutes a real threat to the very fabric of western life. It is in the… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Infuriatingly stupid analysts - especially people who called themselves Arabists, yet who seemed to know next to nothing about the reality of… — 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
The problem is that those of us who were born into Islam and who don't want to live according to scripture -… — 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
