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I am told that Submission is too aggressive a film. Its criticism of Islam is aparently too painful for Muslims to bear. Tell me, how much more painful is it to be these women, trapped in that cage? — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and live. There is nothing more; I want nothing more. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali