Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali (born Ayaan Hirsi Magan, 13 November 1969 in Mogadishu, Somalia) is a Dutch liberal politician and feminist. She was MP for the liberal People's Party for Democracy between 2003 and 2006. She currently works for a conservative think tank, the American Enterprise Institute.
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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.
- Hirsi Ali: "Never confuse Islamic Sharia and the Muslims who really mean it with those extremist Christians who live in the United States", Jihad Watch, 13 July 2007
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali in a video interview, CBC News, 11 July 2007
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- I do not believe in God, angels and the hereafter.
- I am not against migration. It is pragmatic to restrict migration, while encouraging integration and fighting discrimination.
- If I were a male under the same circumstances, I could have been there. It was exactly what I used to believe.
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- Referring to hijacker Mohammed Atta's letter to his accomplices telling them to pray for martyrdom.
- When a Life of Brian comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of van Gogh, it will be a huge step.
- I had never seen an Israeli, but we hated them because it was "Muslim" to hate them.
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- On the lessons she learned from an Iranian-trained Shia fundamentalist.
- I have no real social life. It's like having a body with no bottom [a Somali expression]... who on earth can I saddle with a relationship? It's not off limits, and technically it can all happen. But is it, as we say in Dutch, verstandig? Sensible? It doesn't seem sensible now.
- Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.
- Speach on Freedom of Expression at the European Parliament, 14 February 2008
