After the horrific massacre Wednesday at the French weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, perhaps the West will finally put away its legion of useless tropes trying to deny the relationship between violence and radical Islam.

I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream about it.

I call myself a liberal - a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill.

I was a Muslim once, remember, and it was when I was most devout that I was most full of hate.

I want people to emphasize life before death as opposed to life after death.

My first experience in the Netherlands was very pleasant, extremely pleasant. I mean, I got my residence permit, refugee status, within four weeks of arrival. People treated me extremely well.

I come from a world where the word 'trauma' doesn't exist, because we are too poor. I didn't have an easy life compared to the average European. But compared to the average African, it wasn't all that bad.