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„Opuszczam Holandię ze smutkiem, ale i z ulgą.”

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Znaczenie: Hirsi Ali zrzekła się mandatu deputowanej pod naciskiem opinii publicznej. Przed laty okłamała władze Holandii aby dostać azyl polityczny.
Źródło: „Polityka”, 2006

„Religia – każda religia i każda święta księga – jest w demokracji przedmiotem krytyki, a czasem też i kpiny. Może to być bolesne i trudne, każdy bowiem, kto czuje, że coś mu najdroższego nie jest podzielane przez innych, musi pogodzić się z poczuciem przegranej. Ale taka jest istota wolnego społeczeństwa – prawo wierzących jest także prawem niewierzących i prawem odszczepieńców. Nikt nie może żądać wolności dla siebie i nie chcieć bronić tej wolności dla innych.”

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Źródło: spotkanie z okazji Dnia Wolności Prasy w Stowarzyszeniu Dziennikarzy Holenderskich, 3 maja 2005 r.

„Wierzcie mi, ja też jestem czasem śmiertelnie zmęczona islamem.”

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Źródło: spotkanie z okazji Dnia Wolności Prasy w Stowarzyszeniu Dziennikarzy Holenderskich, 3 maja 2005 r.

„Holandia się zmienia. Zderzenia i konflikty są naturalną częścią tych zmian – dopóki są rozwiązywane za pomocą słów, a nie przemocy.”

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Źródło: spotkanie z okazji Dnia Wolności Prasy w Stowarzyszeniu Dziennikarzy Holenderskich, 3 maja 2005 r.

„Holenderski rząd nie powinien finansować szkół koranicznych, ponieważ odrzucały one wartości uniwersalnych praw człowieka. W szkołach tych nie wszyscy są równi. Ponadto nie przestrzega się w nich wolności słowa i sumienia (…) Zaniedbywane są przedmioty, które pozostają w sprzeczności z nauczaniem islamu, takie jak ewolucja i seksualność. Nauczanie odbywa się metodą pamięciową, a nie poprzez zadawanie pytań. Wpajana jest także, szczególnie dziewczętom, uległość. Nie wdraża się dzieci do życia w społeczności szkolnej i lokalnej, co powoduje późniejsze trudności integracyjne.”

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„Opowieść w Koranie jest prosta i płaska: Hiob zostaje wystawiony na próbę, jest posłuszny i zostaje za to wynagrodzony. Koniec historii. Opowieść w Biblii jest dramatyczna: Hiob buntuje się przeciw Bogu, rozpacza, wątpi, wybucha, oskarża Boga. Ten dramat w Koranie nie istnieje – i na tym polega zasadnicza różnica między obiema tradycjami.”

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

odpowiedź na pytanie, czym różni się Hiob z Biblii od Hioba z Koranu.
Źródło: spotkanie z okazji Dnia Wolności Prasy w Stowarzyszeniu Dziennikarzy Holenderskich, 3 maja 2005 r.

„Każdy rząd solennie obiecuje, że polepszy współpracę z innymi krajami w kwestii migracji i bezpieczeństwa. Jak dotąd żaden nie podjął efektywnych działań na płaszczyźnie europejskiej. Dla mnie jest to jeden z najważniejszych argumentów na rzecz europejskiej konstytucji. Zniknie bowiem wymówka.”

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Źródło: spotkanie z okazji Dnia Wolności Prasy w Stowarzyszeniu Dziennikarzy Holenderskich, 3 maja 2005 r.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Cytaty po angielsku

“Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.”

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“As a woman you are better off in life earning your own money. You couldn't prevent your husband from leaving you or taking another wife, but you could have some of your dignity if you didn't have to beg him for financial support.”

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali książka Infidel

Źródło: Infidel

“Reality is not easy, but all this make-believe doesn't make it easier.”

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali książka Infidel

Źródło: Infidel

“I lived in countries that had no democracy… so I don't find myself in the same luxury as you do. You grew up in freedom, and you can spit on freedom because you don't know what it is not to have freedom.”

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“Of course, I also encountered hostile reactions in campaigning. People called me names, even spat at me; I received more threats. The most remarkable people, to me, were those who apparently approved of everything I said but nonetheless wouldn't dream of voting for the Liberal Party. It reminded me of Somalia: they wouldn't vote outside their clan.”

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali książka Infidel

Źródło: Infidel (2007), Ch. 15

“There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance”

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https://archive.is/20130704013203/www.ejpress.org/article/10660

“However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.”

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali książka Infidel

Wariant: There are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.
Źródło: Infidel

“I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.”

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Epilogue: The Letter of the Law
Źródło: Infidel (2007)

“Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for the bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage.”

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali książka Infidel

Źródło: Infidel (2007), Chapter 15: Threats

“Multiculturalism should not mean that we tolerate another culture’s intolerance. If we do in fact support diversity, women’s rights, and gay rights, then we cannot in good conscience give Islam a free pass on the grounds of multicultural sensitivity.”

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali książka Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now

Źródło: Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now

“Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.”

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali książka Infidel

Źródło: Infidel (2007), Chapter 13: Leiden

“Wishful thinking about the peaceful tolerance of Islam cannot interpret away this reality: hands are still cut off, women still stoned and enslaved, just as the Prophet Muhammad decided centuries ago.”

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Źródło: Infidel

“You'll be pleased to hear, Christopher, that I am no longer a Muslim liberal but an atheist […. ] I find that it obviates the necessity for any cognitive dissonance.”

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“[In Ethiopia, ] Abeh enrolled all three of us in school, which was taught in Amharic. We spoke only Somali and Arabic, so everything was completely foreign again for a little while. It wasn't until I could communicate that I came to a startling realization: the little girls in school with me were not Muslims. They said they were Kiristaan, Christian, which in Saudi Arabia had been a hideous playground insult, meaning impure. I went bewildered to my mother, who confirmed it. Ethiopians were kufr, the very sound of the word was scornful. They drank alcohol and they didn't wash properly. They were despicable.”

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Źródło: Infidel (2007), Chapter 4: Weeping Orphans and Widowed Wives

“In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and precious. … The first time she saw a white person my grandmother was in her thirties: she thought this person's skin had burned off.”

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Źródło: Infidel (2007), Chapter 1: Bloodlines

“…with like-minded people one cannot discuss. With like-minded people one can only participate in a church service, and, as is widely known, I do not like church services.”

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NOS Journaal, official Dutch newsrail, 8 pm, August 30, 2006. "Met gelijkgezinden kun je alleen maar een kerkdienst* houden, en zoals bekend, houd ik niet van kerkdiensten." "Kerkdienst" means church service of a Christian denomination, such as Mass (liturgy) and cannot be used in Dutch to describe a Muslim prayer service.

“The man, who was probably an itinerant traditional circumciser from the blacksmith clan, picked up a pair of scissors. With the other hand, he caught hold of the place between my legs and started tweaking it, like Grandma milking a goat. "There it is, the kintir," one of the women said. Then the scissors went down between my legs and the man cut off my inner labia and clitoris. I heard it, like a butcher snipping the fat off a piece of meat. A piercing pain shot up between my legs, indescribable, and I howled. Then came the sewing: the long, blunt needle clumsily pushed into my bleeding outer labia, my loud and anguished protests, Grandma's words of comfort and encouragement. "It's just this once in your life, Ayaan. Be brave, it's almost finished."”

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When the sewing was finished, he cut the thread off with his teeth.
Źródło: Infidel (2007), Chapter 2: Under the Talal Tree

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

“Many well-meaning Dutch people have told me in all earnestness that nothing in Islamic culture incites abuse of women, that this is just a terrible misunderstanding. Men all over the world beat their women, I am constantly informed. In reality, these Westerners are the ones who misunderstand Islam. The Quran mandates these punishments. It gives a legitimate basis for abuse, so that the perpetrators feel no shame and are not hounded by their conscience or their community. I wanted my art exhibit to make it difficult for people to look away from this problem. I wanted secular, non-Muslim people to stop kidding themselves that "Islam is peace and tolerance."”

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Źródło: Infidel (2007), Chapter 16: Politics

“The most pressing question of our time is this: Is European society to be taken over by a radical invasion of Muslim immigrants?”

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"Author, activist condemns Muslim faith at Palm Beach talk", Palm Beach Daily News (21 March 2009)

“Every accommodation of Muslim demands leads to a sense of euphoria and a conviction that Allah is on their side. They see every act of appeasement as an invitation to make fresh demands.”

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"Author, activist condemns Muslim faith at Palm Beach talk", Palm Beach Daily News (21 March 2009)

“Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.”

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Speech on Freedom of Expression at the European Parliament, 14 February 2008

“Islam is not a religion of peace. It's a political theory of conquest that seeks domination by any means it can.”

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"Author, activist condemns Muslim faith at Palm Beach talk", Palm Beach Daily News (21 March 2009) http://web.archive.org/web/20090324042409/www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2009/03/21/0321muslimsali.html

“In October 2002, I flew to California. It was the first time I had ever been in the United States, and I realized almost immediately that my preconceptions of America were completely ludicrous. I was expecting rednecks and fat people, with lots of guns, very aggressive police, and overt racism – a caricature of a caricature. In reality, of course, I saw people living perfectly well-ordered lives, jogging and drinking coffee.”

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali książka Infidel

Źródło: Infidel (2007), Ch. 15

“We had already learned part of the Quran by heart in Mogadishu, although of course we had never understood more than a word or two of it, because it was in Arabic. But the teacher in Mecca said we recited it disrespectfully: we raced it, to show off. So now we had to learn it all by heart again, but this time with reverent pauses. We still didn't understand more than the bare gist of it. Apparently, understanding wasn't the point.”

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Źródło: Infidel (2007), Ch. 3

“This was Saudi Arabia, where Islam originated, governed strictly according to the scriptures and example of the Prophet Muhammad. And by law, all women in Saudi Arabia must be in the care of a man. My mother argued loudly with the Saudi immigration official, but he merely repeated in an ever louder voice that she could not leave the airport without a man in charge.”

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Źródło: Infidel (2007), Chapter 3: Playing Tag in Allah's Palace

“This is exactly how minds are opened: through honest, frank dialogue. Tears may be shed, but not blood.”

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Źródło: 2010s, Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations (2010), Chapter 14, “Opening the Muslim Mind: An Enlightenment Mind” (p. 209)

“With our grandmother staying behind in Somalia, my mother had nobody with whom to share tasks and plans. She could do nothing on her own. She wasn't supposed to go out on the street without these new guardians of ours, our uncles, and neither were we. To phone them she had to scuttle down to the corner grocer, with my ten-year-old brother in tow acting as her protective male.”

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Źródło: Infidel (2007), Ch. 3

“Here is something I have learned the hard way, but which a lot of well-meaning people in the West have a hard time accepting: 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.”

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Źródło: 2010s, Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations (2010), Chapter 14, “Opening the Muslim Mind: An Enlightenment Mind (pp. 212-213)