I call myself a liberal - a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Unlike the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth, the umma, or Muslim community, has no symbolic leader, let alone a formal one.
Muslim leaders should ask themselves what exactly their relationship is to a political movement that encourages young men to kill and maim on religious grounds.
I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.
I would rather clean than beg.
Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.
There are some mosques with facilities for women; it's usually a back room with a back-door entrance.
Young people, some of whom are not born into the faith, are being fired up by preachers using basic Islamic scripture and mobilized to wage jihad by radical imams who represent themselves as legitimate Muslim clergymen.
When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo van Gogh, it will be a huge step forward.
Every time I went on TV I got a threat.
If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well.
In 1985 as a teenager in Kenya, I was an adamant member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists or sympathetic to terrorists. Equating all Muslims with terrorism is stupid and wrong.
If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.
I do not believe in God, angels and the hereafter.
They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I took it.
