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.

If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.

Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.

I grew up in Somalia, in Saudi Arabia, in Ethiopia, and in Kenya. I came to Europe in 1992, when I was 22, and became a member of Parliament in Holland.

In April 2006, a Dutch court ordered that I leave my safe-home that I was renting from the State. The judge concluded that my neighbors had a right to argue that they felt unsafe because of my presence in the building.

I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.

I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.