Islam Quotes by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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

“Force and rape are not an issue because he is a believing Muslim and he is an Osman Mahamud.”

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I was a Muslim once, remember, and it was when I was most devout that I was most full of hate.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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

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

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

My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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

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

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

“The Muslim veil, the different sorts of masks and beaks and "burkas", are all gradations of mental slavery. (...) The veil deliberately…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“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

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

“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

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

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

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

“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

Infuriatingly stupid analysts - especially people who called themselves Arabists, yet who seemed to know next to nothing about the reality of…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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

“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

“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

“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

“The morning after the 9/11 attacks...we began talking about the Twin Towers attack. Ruud shook his head sadly about it all. He…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“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

“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

I wanted secular, non-Muslim people to stop kidding themselves that Islam is peace and tolerance.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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

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

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

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

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

Unlike the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth, the umma, or Muslim community, has no symbolic leader, let alone a formal one.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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