Ayaan Hirsi Ali
“We are self-intimidating. I don’t think that we are being forced by outside powers. Our president is not being forced by outside powers to take the position that he’s taking. He has taken it after a lot of thought. He thinks it’s strategic. I just think it’s a strategy that has failed. He’s not the only one who tried it. All Western establishment leaders have insisted we are not at war with Islam. It’s absolutely true. We are not at war with Islam. we’re not waging war on Islam. That has — that is absolutely true. But, within Islam, and using Islamic theology, Islamic tradition, Islamic philosophy, we have hundreds of thousands of people who are at war with us.”