Ayaan Hirsi Ali Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.”

“My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.”

“My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam.”

“No one in the American Enterprise imposes their beliefs. We clash, and I think that's what the West is all about.”

“Every time you take a train, step into your car, walk into the shopping mall, go to the airport - every single time, something could happen. That's how terrorism works.”

“There's peacetime and there's wartime, and you don't need polarization on wartime issues. You need polarization on all other issues.”

“Unlike the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth, the umma, or Muslim community, has no symbolic leader, let alone a formal one.”

“A Western woman is not her brother's or her father's property. She's just herself. She can choose her own lifestyle. But in a Muslim family, the honor of the man is between the legs of a woman.”

“Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between Islam and the west. But a radical minority of Muslims firmly believes that Islam is under siege, and is committed to winning the holy war it has declared against the West.”

“It's wrong to treat Muslims as if they will never find their John Stuart Mill. Christianity and Judaism show people can be very dogmatic and then open up.”