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Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The grim truth is, for me to be safe, I have to outlive a generation of young minds who are polluted, whose minds are…

On the recordJanuary 6, 2015
The grim truth is, for me to be safe, I have to outlive a generation of young minds who are polluted, whose minds are contaminated with this ideology.
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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Hirsi Ali reflects on the ideological battle and the need to combat radical beliefs for personal safety.

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