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Everywhere where detestable Islam has not yet driven out the ancient, profound religions of humanity...

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When, as happened recently in France, an attempt is made to coerce women out of the burqa rather tha...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Ayaan Hirsi AliHeretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now

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

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Ayaan Hirsi AliHeretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now

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

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Ayaan Hirsi AliHeretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now

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

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Ayaan Hirsi AliHeretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now

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

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

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Ayaan Hirsi AliHeretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Ayaan Hirsi AliNomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations

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

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Ayaan Hirsi AliNomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations

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

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Ayaan Hirsi AliThe Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam

The Islamic Revolution, as it turned out, did more damage to Islam by using it as an instrument of o...

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Azar NafisiReading Lolita in Tehran

A message was sent by the regime to the faithful: to survive they would have to be loyal to only one...

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Azar NafisiThings I've Been Silent About: Memories

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

How grossly are they mistaken in imagining slavery to be disallowed by the Alcoran! Are not the two ...

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Over a billion people believe in Allah without truly knowing what Allah supposedly stands for or wha...

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If we suggest that it is okay to make fun of everything except certain aspects of Islam because Musl...

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The refusal to examine Islamic culture and traditions, the sordid dehumanization of Muslims, and the...

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The Koran is empathetic about the rights of other religions to practice their own beliefs. It unequi...

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Half the published articles on Gaza contain a standard reference to its resemblance to a vast open-a...

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So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the ha...

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Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I ...

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And I'll close by saying this. Because anti-Semitism is the godfather of racism and the gateway to t...

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I am not one of those who believes—as Obama is said to believe—that a solution to the Palestinian st...

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The barbarians never take a city until someone holds the gates open to them. And it's your own multi...

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the bombers of Manhattan represent fascism with an Islamic face. . . . What they abominate about ‘th...

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To take a side against Rushdie, or to be neutral and evasive about him in the name of some vaguely s...

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I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization again...

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The United States finds itself with forces of reaction. Do I have to demonstrate this? The Taliban's...

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Christopher HitchensA Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq

As to the 'Left' I'll say briefly why this was the finish for me. Here is American society, attacked...

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The 'pre-emption' versus 'prevention' debate may be a distinction without much difference. The impor...

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Christopher HitchensChristopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror

There's a certain amount of ambiguity in my background, what with intermarriages and conversions, bu...

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I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so e...

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I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so e...

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It can certainly be misleading to take the attributes of a movement, or the anxieties and contradict...

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Like the Nazis, the cadres of jihad have a death wish that sets the seal on their nihilism. The goal...

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Almost all religions from Buddhism to Islam feature either a humble prophet or a prince who comes to...

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Christopher Hitchensgod is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

The Orient and Islam have a kind of extrareal, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them out ...

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Woe to him who becomes useless to human progress!

Islam has been liberal when it has been weak and violent when it has been strong.

In relation to Monotheism considered as such, Judaism stabilized but “confiscated” the Message; Chri...

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The differences between religions are reflected very clearly in the different forms of sacred art: c...

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Frithjof SchuonGnosis: Divine Wisdom: A New Translation with Selected Letters

If Mohammed had been a false prophet. there is no reason why Christ should not have spoken of him as...

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As for the negation of the Christian Trinity in the Quran - and this negation is extrinsic and condi...

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My method is atheism. I find the atheistic outlook provides a favourable background for cosmopolitan...

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I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism...

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They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, ...

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Jean-Jacques RousseauDiscourse on the Sciences and Arts (1st Discourse) and Polemics

Europe had fallen back into the barbarity of the first ages. People from this part of world, so enli...

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Jean-Jacques RousseauDiscourse on the Sciences and Arts (1st Discourse) and Polemics

By the time of the arrival of Islam in the early seventeenth century CE, what we now call the Middle...

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Many historians regard him [Offa] as the most powerful Anglo-Saxon king before Alfred the Great. In ...

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Arabic science throughout its golden age was inextricably linked to religion; indeed, it was driven ...

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In fact, for a period stretching over seven hundred years, the international language of science was...

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As the government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, — as i...

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...Turn our thoughts, in the next place, to the characters of learned men. The priesthood have, in a...

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John AdamsThe Letters of John and Abigail Adams

...Turn our thoughts, in the next place, to the characters of learned men. The priesthood have, in a...

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John AdamsThe Letters of John and Abigail Adams

Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

One of the most interesting histories of what comes of rejecting science we may see in Islam, which ...

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Islam is about finding your own space.

Many people are born into their religion. For them it is mostly a matter of legacy and convenience. ...

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Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some g...

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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually,...

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In [the] early days, Muslims did not see Islam as a new, exclusive religion but as a continuation of...

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Karen ArmstrongThe Case for God

Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human ...

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So, this war is against the Islam that the West does not control.

I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days...

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Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.

The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid ...

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America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the...

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There is nothing in our book, the Qur'an, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches...

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I am a Muslim, because it's a religion that teaches you an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. I...

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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send...

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True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and rac...

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When the meat platter was passed to me, I didn't even know what the meat was; usually, you couldn't ...

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Malcolm XThe Autobiography of Malcolm X

I want to say before I go on that I have never previously told anyone my sordid past in detail. I ha...

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I have always thought that if women's hair posed so many problems, God would certainly have made us ...

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I believe Western culture -- rule of law, universal suffrage, etc. -- is preferable to Arab culture:...

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A world that becomes more Muslim becomes less everything else. First it’s Jews, already abandoning F...

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Her Majesty's government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellia...

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Mark SteynAmerica Alone: The End of the World as We Know It

It’s possible to be flippant here, when Jihadists fly aircraft into buildings they shout God is Grea...

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Martin AmisThe Second Plane: 14 Responses to September 11

he philosophy of Islam will be shown in terms of the modern philosophy, and if there are imperfectio...

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I'm just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

The day I met Islam, I found a power within myself that no man could destroy or take away from me.

The word 'Islam' means 'peace.' The word 'Muslim' means 'one who surrenders to God.' But the press m...

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Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and pol...

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