Ayaan Hirsi AliAmericans have always welcomed people of all backgrounds, religions, and races. It's a spirit of tolerance, now energized and amplified by the cult of multiculturalism.371Humanity
Ayaan Hirsi AliAfter 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… ▶372Truth
Ayaan Hirsi AliIn April 2006, a Dutch court ordered that I leave my safe-home that I was renting from the State. The judge concluded that my neighbors had a right to argue that they felt unsafe … ▶351Politics
Ayaan Hirsi AliDrinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas. ✨ Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). Infidel, p.239, Simon and Schuster374ReadingThought
Ayaan Hirsi AliI don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream about it. ✨ Ayaan Hirsi Ali: 'Why are Muslims so hypersensiti… ▶342Humor
Ayaan Hirsi AliEvery time I went on TV I got a threat.364Time
Ayaan Hirsi AliI was a Muslim once, remember, and it was when I was most devout that I was most full of hate.321Hope
Ayaan Hirsi AliI am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned English.343Time
Ayaan Hirsi AliThe veil deliberately marks women as private and restricted property, nonpersons. The veil sets women apart from men and apart from the world; it restrains them, confines them, gr… ▶376HumanityThought
Ayaan Hirsi AliIn 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 diversit… ▶366Humanity
Ayaan Hirsi AliWhen I was with the Labor Party, I'd get into trouble because the party bosses determined that some of what I wrote, or proposed to write about, wasn't conducive to their policies… ▶344Thought
Ayaan Hirsi AliIn a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only in your private li… ▶323LifePoliticsReading
Ayaan Hirsi AliIn 1985 as a teenager in Kenya, I was an adamant member of the Muslim Brotherhood. ✨ Get Ready to Compete With the Muslim Brotherhood: Egypt Could Chart a 'Third Way’ … ▶356Reading
Ayaan Hirsi AliI do not believe in God, angels and the hereafter. ✨ Secrets and lies that doomed a radical liberal by Jason Burke, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2006.345Life
Ayaan Hirsi AliI cannot emphasize enough how wrongheaded this is. Withholding criticism and ignoring differences are racism in its purest form. Yet these cultural experts fail to notice that, th… ▶367HumanityPoliticsTime
Ayaan Hirsi AliUnlike the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth, the umma, or Muslim community, has no symbolic leader, let alone a formal one. ✨ The iPod and the Queen, the Kindle and the Ki… ▶335Sadness
Ayaan Hirsi AliLiberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other 'isms,' it's far superior.291Philosophy
Ayaan Hirsi AliThe West is duly terrified. But it should not be surprised. ✨ How to Answer the Paris Terror Attack. Article by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, www.metafilter.com. January 7, 2015.291Love
Ayaan Hirsi AliI lived in countries that had no democracy... so I don't find myself in the same luxury as you do. You grew up in freedom, and you can spit on freedom because you don't know what … ▶358Thought
Ayaan Hirsi AliThis was not an attack by a mentally deranged, lone-wolf gunman. This was not an 'un-Islamic' attack by a bunch of thugs - the perpetrators could be heard shouting that they were … ▶336Reading
Ayaan Hirsi AliBut without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge. ✨ Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). The Caged Virgin: A Muslim Woman's Cry… ▶336HumanitySadness
Ayaan Hirsi AliI 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. ✨ Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2011… ▶282DeathHumanity
Ayaan Hirsi AliI confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.282Life
Ayaan Hirsi AliI'd like Muslims to look at their religion as a set of beliefs that they can appraise critically and pick and choose from.349Hope
Ayaan Hirsi AliAll my life I have been a nomad. ✨ Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2011). Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations, p.15, Simon and Schuster272HumanityLife
Ayaan Hirsi AliInfuriatingly stupid analysts - especially people who called themselves Arabists, yet who seemed to know next to nothing about the reality of the Islamic world - wrote reams of co… ▶262DeathHumanityTruth
Ayaan Hirsi AliIt is easy to be disgruntled if you are denied rights and freedoms to which you feel entitled. But if you are not coherent, if you cannot put into words what it is that displeases… ▶317HumanityLifePhilosophy
Ayaan Hirsi AliWhat I find daunting always is to stand on a stage and talk to people, whether they agree with me or not.306Humanity
Ayaan Hirsi AliIf we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.317Philosophy
Ayaan Hirsi AliI wanted secular, non-Muslim people to stop kidding themselves that Islam is peace and tolerance. ✨ Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). Infidel, p.307, Simon and Schuster262Humanity
