They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life… — 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
When your life is threatened, whether it's by human beings or by disease or whatever, you come to appreciate life. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
As a woman you are better off in life earning your own money. You couldn't prevent your husband from leaving you or… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Even with protection, even with death threats, I can publish, I can travel and I can live the life that I want… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Over the course of my life, I have made many transitions - most of them taking me further away from my Somali… — 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
When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo van Gogh,… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
I come from a world where the word 'trauma' doesn't exist, because we are too poor. I didn't have an easy life… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
I talk about a Christianity that is enlightened enough to separate spirituality from the rest of life. Not just church and state,… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Most unmarried Somali girls who got pregnant committed suicide. I knew of one girl in Mogadishu who poured a can of gasoline… — 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
“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
It is easy to be disgruntled if you are denied rights and freedoms to which you feel entitled. But if you are… — 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… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
“I would not have put it this way in those days, but because I was born a woman, I could never become… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Catholics should be proselytizing about a God who is love, who represents a hereafter where there's no hell, who wants you to… — 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
