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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.

Of Course, The Overwhelming Majority Of Muslims Are Not Terrorists Or Sympathetic To Terrorists. Equating All Muslims With Terrorism Is Stupid And Wrong. But Acknowledging That There Is A Link Between Islam And Terror Is Appropriate And Necessary.

It Was Friday, July 24, 1992, When I Stepped On The Train. Every Year I Think Of It. I See It As My Real Birthday: The Birth Of Me As A Person, Making Decisions About My Life On My Own. I Was Not Running Away From Islam, Or To Democracy. I Didn't Have Any Big Ideas Then. I Was Just A Young Girl And Wanted Some Way To Be Me; So I Bolted Into The Unknown.

The Veil Deliberately Marks Women As Private And Restricted Property, Nonpersons. The Veil Sets Women Apart From Men And Apart From The World; It Restrains Them, Confines Them, Grooms Them For Docility. A Mind Can Be Cramped Just As A Body May Be, And A Muslim Veil Blinkers Both Your Vision And Your Destiny. It Is The Mark Of A Kind Of Apartheid, Not The Domination Of A Race But Of A Sex.

Many People In Europe And The U.s. Dispute The Thesis That We Are Living Through A Clash Of Civilisations Between Islam And The West. But A Radical Minority Of Muslims Firmly Believes That Islam Is Under Siege, And Is Committed To Winning The Holy War It Has Declared Against The West.