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That is my dream. But frankly, I do not know if Western feminists have the courage or clarity of vision to help me realize it.

— 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?

Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations (2010)

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

Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations (2010)

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

Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations (2010)

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

Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations (2010)

But the more pressing business is what feminists can do to prevent an alien culture of oppression from taking root in the West.

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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1599)

All doubt is cowardice — all trust is brave.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Courage is never born with a person; time and circumstances inject it into a person and bring it forth from within.

Sanu Sharma

Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

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