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

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

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

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

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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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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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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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Islam is not a race... Islam is simply a set of beliefs, and it is not 'Islamophobic' to say Islam is incompatible with liberal democracy.

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I have had to pay a price for leaving Islam and for speaking out. I have to pay for round-the-clock security because of the death threats against me.

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I grew up in Somalia, in Saudi Arabia, in Ethiopia, and in Kenya. I came to Europe in 1992, when I was 22, and became a member of Parliament in Holland.

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You who believe, do not take the Jews and Christians as friends; they are allies only to each other. Anyone who takes them as an ally becomes one of them.

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In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only in your private life.

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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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