"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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"We must reclaim and retake feminism from our fellow idiotic women."
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"There are some mosques with facilities for women; it's usually a back room with a back-door entrance."
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"...Bear true witness, even if it be against yourselves, your parents or your family."
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"Americans have always welcomed people of all backgrounds, religions, and races. It's a spirit of tolerance, now energized and amplified by the cult of multiculturalism."
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"We who don't want radical Islam to spread must compete with the agents of radical Islam. I want to see what would happen if Christians, feminists and Enlightenment thinkers were to start proselytizing in the Muslim community."
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"Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas."
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"I don't believe in hell and heaven anymore. Or angels. I think Islam is a superstition like every other superstition. But now because it's a superstition, unlike Christianity, that hasn't been tested and hasn't gone through a process of enlightenment, I think it's a dangerous superstition."
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"I'd love to go and visit the Mosque in Mecca again, just for the sheer beauty of it, not for God - much the way a non-Catholic might go to Vatican City because of the beauty of the buildings and the artifacts."
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"I come from a world where the word 'trauma' doesn't exist, because we are too poor. I didn't have an easy life compared to the average European. But compared to the average African, it wasn't all that bad."
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"This was not an attack by a mentally deranged, lone-wolf gunman. This was not an 'un-Islamic' attack by a bunch of thugs - the perpetrators could be heard shouting that they were avenging the Prophet Muhammad. Nor was it spontaneous. It was planned to inflict maximum damage, during a staff meeting, with automatic weapons and a getaway plan. It was designed to sow terror, and in that it has worked."
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"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."
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"The mistake that the Bush administration should admit to is not so much that they made the wrong choices. They made the right analysis; they made the right choices. But what they did wrong was the execution of those choices. That was wrong."
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"The idea that if people are just friendly and demonstrate they want peace, that will be answered with good will - that is really naive."
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"European children are educated in a narrative of human tolerance every day, and if you want to be sure to prevent a backlash, you should at least think of bringing Muslim children and teenagers into the fold of that narrative of tolerance."
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"I talk about a Christianity that is enlightened enough to separate spirituality from the rest of life. Not just church and state, but knowledge and church."
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"What I find daunting always is to stand on a stage and talk to people, whether they agree with me or not."
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"In 2010, I suggested that if you are a good Muslim with a good conscience, go and look for a better God, and I think that was juvenile of me."
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"I call myself a liberal - a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill."
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"I want people to emphasize life before death as opposed to life after death."
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