20 Quotes by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somali-born Dutch-American activist, writer, and politician, known for her advocacy of women's rights and opposition to Islamism. She has authored several books on the topics of Islam, human rights, and women's issues, and has spoken out against practices such as female genital mutilation and forced marriages. Her work has been both praised and criticized, with some regarding her as a courageous champion of women's rights and others seeing her as a divisive figure. (Bio)
Ayaan Hirsi Ali Quotes
There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance (Meaning)
Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.
The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets.
I love life more than I love death.
It takes a long time to dissolve the bars of a mental cage.
I was a Muslim once, remember, and it was when I was most devout that I was most full of hate.
In the real world, equal respect for all cultures doesn't translate into a rich mosaic of colorful and proud peoples interacting peacefully while maintaining a delightful diversity of food and craftwork. It translates into closed pockets of oppression, ignorance, and abuse.
Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.
Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals. (Meaning)
The demand that Islam makes of women is to not attract attention to yourself, and if you are in a secular society, that attire does exactly that, and it is a political symbol, no longer religious.
I wanted secular, non-Muslim people to stop kidding themselves that Islam is peace and tolerance.
I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.
Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists or sympathetic to terrorists. Equating all Muslims with terrorism is stupid and wrong. But acknowledging that there is a link between Islam and terror is appropriate and necessary.
My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam.
Reality is not easy, but all this make-believe doesn't make it easier.
We must reclaim and retake feminism from our fellow idiotic women.
After the horrific massacre Wednesday at the French weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, perhaps the West will finally put away its legion of useless tropes trying to deny the relationship between violence and radical Islam.
I don't believe there is such a thing as 'moderate Islam.' I think it's better to talk about degrees of belief and degrees of practice.
Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other 'isms,' it's far superior.
I want people to emphasize life before death as opposed to life after death.
― Ayaan Hirsi Ali Quotes
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