And in the west, when we say peace, we mean something totally different from developing a bomb to eradicate Israel or, from flogging a poor young woman, a 19-year-old with 200 lashes of the whip.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali contrasts Western and Islamic definitions of peace.
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