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by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Author) (edit contributors)

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In her powerful new memoir, the #1 bestselling author of Infidel tells the stirring story of her search for a new life as she tries to reconcile her Islamic past with her passionate adherence to democracy and Western values. A unique blend of personal narrative and reportage, moving,... read more

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  • “All human beings are equal, but all cultures and religions are not. A culture that celebrates femininity and considers women to be the masters of their own lives is better than a culture that mutilates girls' genitals and confines them behind walls and veils or flogs or stones them for falling in love. A culture that protects women's rights by law is better than a culture in which a man can lawfully have four wives at once and women are denied alimony and half their inheritance. A culture that appoints women to its supreme court is better than a culture that declares that the testimony of a woman is worth half that of a man. It is part of Muslim culture to oppress women and part of all tribal cultures to institutionalize patronage, nepotism, and corruption. The culture of the Western Enlightenment is better.”
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  • All human beings are equal, but all cultures and religions are not.
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  • But the prehistory of radicalism is a soft brainwashing in submission—the real meaning of the word Islam—from birth.
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  • What comes packaged in a compassionate language of acceptance is really a cruel form of racism. And it is all the more cruel because it is expressed in sugary words of virtue.
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  • So this, in a nutshell, was my Enlightenment: free inquiry, universal education, individual freedom, the outlawing of private violence, and the protection of individual property rights.
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  • Multiculturalism helps immigrants postpone the pain of letting go of the anachronistic and inappropriate. It locks people into corrupt, inefficient, and unjust social systems, even if it does preserve their arts and crafts. It perpetuates poverty, misery, and abuse.
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  • In the real world, equal respect for all cultures doesn’t translate into a rich mosaic of colorful and proud peoples interacting peacefully while maintaining a delightful diversity of food and craftwork. It translates into closed pockets of oppression, ignorance, and abuse.
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  • Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and to offend.
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  • The West urgently needs to compete with the jihadis, the proponents of a holy war, for the hearts and minds of its own Muslim immigrant populations. It needs to provide education directed at breaking the spell of the infallible Prophet, to protect women from the oppressive dictates of the Quran, and to promote alternative sources of spirituality.
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  • I can sum up the three obstacles to the integration of people like my own family in three words: sex, money, and violence.
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  • When well-meaning Westerners, eager to promote respect for minority religions and cultures, ignore practices like forced marriage and confinement in order to “stop society from stigmatizing Muslims,” they deny countless Muslim girls their right to wrest their freedom from their parents’ culture. They fail to live up to the ideals and values of our democratic society, and they harm the very same vulnerable minority whom they seek to protect.
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All my life I have been a nomad.

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PART 1 - A PROBLEM FAMILY
1. My Father
2. My Half Sister
3. My Mother
4. My Brother's Story
5. My Brother's Son
6. My Cousins
7. Letter to My Grandmother

PART 2 - NOMAD AGAIN
8. Nomad Again
9. America
10. Islam in America

PART 3 - SEX, MONEY, VIOLENCE
11. School and Sexuality
12. Money and Responsibility
13. Violence and the Closing of the Muslim Mind

PART IV
14. Opening the Muslim Mind: An Enlightenment Project
15. Dishonor, Death, and Feminists
16. Seeking God by Finding Allah

Conclusion: The Miye' and the Magaalo
Epilogue: Letter to My Unborn Daughter
The AHA Foundation

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  1. Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Author)

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