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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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All my life I have been a nomad.
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When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo van Gogh, it will be a huge step forward.
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Reality is not easy, but all this make-believe doesn't make it easier.
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The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets.
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It takes a long time to dissolve the bars of a mental cage.
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Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other 'isms,' it's far superior.
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No one in the American Enterprise imposes their beliefs. We clash, and I think that's what the West is all about.
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...the right to think, to speak, and to write in freedom and without fear is ultimately a more sacred thing than any religion.
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I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned English.
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I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.
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I have had to pay a price for leaving Islam and for speaking out. I have to pay for round-the-clock security because of the death threats against me.
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My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.
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A virgin's silence is the proper answer to a marriage proposal; it signifies a dignified consent.
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But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge.
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All scriptures contain contradictions and the Qur'an is no exception.
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Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.
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American liberals today are hesitant to speak out against the denial of rights that is perpetrated in the name of Islam.
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Let me make my point in the simplest possible terms: Islam is not a religion of peace.
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Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.
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If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.
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There's peacetime and there's wartime, and you don't need polarization on wartime issues. You need polarization on all other issues.
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There are some mosques with facilities for women; it's usually a back room with a back-door entrance.
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In 1985 as a teenager in Kenya, I was an adamant member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.
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I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream about it.
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People in the West... have learned not to examine the religions or cultures of minorities too critically for fear of being called racist.
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I love life more than I love death.
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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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The "kufar," or unbelievers. She had begun her journey to
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My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam.
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You must learn what to fear and what not to fear.
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We must reclaim and retake feminism from our fellow idiotic women.
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I was a Muslim once, remember, and it was when I was most devout that I was most full of hate.
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I do not believe in God, angels and the hereafter.
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Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.
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The key imperatives of modernity: freedom of conscience, tolerance of difference, equality of the sexes, and an investment in life before death.
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I was learning that in these extremely civilized circles, conflict is dealt with in a very ornate and hypocritical manner.
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Unlike the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth, the umma, or Muslim community, has no symbolic leader, let alone a formal one.
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Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.
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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 took it.
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In 2010, I suggested that if you are a good Muslim with a good conscience, go and look for a better God, and I think that was juvenile of me.
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Islam is not a race ... Islam is simply a set of beliefs, and it is not 'Islamophobic' to say Islam is incompatible with liberal democracy.
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The rule of clerics is totalitarian. It means people can't choose. Humanity is varied, and we should celebrate that instead of suppressing it.
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I would rather clean than beg.
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I call myself a liberal - a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill.
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Every time I went on TV I got a threat.
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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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Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.
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Islamic scholars developed a doctrine known as "abrogation" (an-Nasikh wa'l Mansukh), whereby Allah issues new revelations that supersede old ones.
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It even contains rules on what types of blows are permissible when a husband beats his wife.
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If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well.
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I'd like Muslims to look at their religion as a set of beliefs that they can appraise critically and pick and choose from.
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The West is duly terrified. But it should not be surprised ...
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