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People often ask me what it’s like to live with bodyguards. The short answer is that it’s better than being dead.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations (2010)

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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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Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.

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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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