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Islam is not a race...Islam is simply a set of beliefs, and it is not 'Islamophobic' to say Islam is incompatible with liberal democracy.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali in a video interview, CBC News, July 13, 2007

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When Muslim women face not just oppression but violent death, why aren’t the feminists out protesting these abusers?

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As a tribe we are fragmented; as clans, scattered; as families, dysfunctional.

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If there is an infallible mark of an advanced civilization it is surely the marginalization and criminalization of violence.

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