Ayaan Hirsi Ali Quotes

But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire kn...

You'll be pleased to hear, Christopher, that I am no longer a Muslim liberal but an atheist [....] I...

I'd like Muslims to look at their religion as a set of beliefs that they can appraise critically and...

American liberals today are hesitant to speak out against the denial of rights that is perpetrated i...

Young people, some of whom are not born into the faith, are being fired up by preachers using basic ...

Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion ...

With the first commandment, Mohammed tried to imprison common sense. And with the second commandment...

They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in thi...

Even with protection, even with death threats, I can publish, I can travel and I can live the life t...

The people who believe themselves to be on the left, and who defend the agents of Islam in the name ...

It is always difficult to make the transition to a modern world. I moved from the world of faith to ...

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.

When I look at people talking about intersectionality, what I see is the human being magnifying a bi...

My first experience in the Netherlands was very pleasant, extremely pleasant. I mean, I got my resid...

The morning after the 9/11 attacks...we began talking about the Twin Towers attack. Ruud shook his h...

I think now that this obsession with identifying racism, which I saw so often among Somalis too, was...

Most Americans, and indeed most Europeans, would much rather ignore the fundamental conflict between...

When I assert that Islam is not a religion of peace I do not mean that Islamic belief makes Muslims ...

Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is f...

Confronted with such flagrant acts of intolerance—such abuses of the freedom of speech—a free societ...

Islam is not unusual in having a tradition of martyrs. What is unique to Islam is the tradition of m...

Multiculturalism should not mean that we tolerate another culture’s intolerance. If we do in fact su...

We who have the luxury of living in the West have an obligation to stand up for liberal principles. ...

Many well-meaning Dutch people have told me in all earnestness that nothing in Islamic culture incit...

...Bin Laden's quotes from the Quaran resonated in my brain: "When you meet the unbelievers, strike ...

In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy...

It is easy to be disgruntled if you are denied rights and freedoms to which you feel entitled. But i...

Here is something I have learned the hard way, but which a lot of well-meaning people in the West ha...

The veil deliberately marks women as private and restricted property, nonpersons. The veil sets wome...

People accuse me of having interiorized a feeling of racial inferiority, so that I attack my own cul...

Scheffer said a new ethnic underclass of immigrants had formed, and it was much too insular, rejecti...

Islam influences every aspect of believers’ lives. Women are denied their social and economic rights...

The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death i...

This was an infidel country, whose way of life we Muslims were supposed to oppose and reject. Why wa...

Infuriatingly stupid analysts - especially people who called themselves Arabists, yet who seemed to ...

By declaring our Prophet infallible and not permitting ourselves to question him, we Muslims had set...

As a woman you are better off in life earning your own money. You couldn't prevent your husband from...