Ayaan Hirsi Ali Quotes
Unlike the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth, the umma, or Muslim community, has no symbolic leader, let alone a formal one.
No one in the American Enterprise imposes their beliefs. We clash, and I think that's what the West is all about.
Muslim leaders should ask themselves what exactly their relationship is to a political movement that encourages young men to kill and maim on religious grounds.
I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned English.
I think of Canada, first and foremost, in terms of space. The amount of space available is breathtaking.
American liberals today are hesitant to speak out against the denial of rights that is perpetrated in the name of Islam.
Confronted with such flagrant acts of intolerance—such abuses of the freedom of speech—a free society must surely do more. For intolerance is the one thing a free society cannot afford to tolerate.
Even with protection, even with death threats, I can publish, I can travel and I can live the life that I want and not the one my parents want or some imam somewhere thinks I should live.
With the first commandment, Mohammed tried to imprison common sense. And with the second commandment, the beautiful, romantic side of mankind was enslaved.
