Unlike the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth, the umma, or Muslim community, has no symbolic leader, let alone a formal one.

The people who believe themselves to be on the left, and who defend the agents of Islam in the name of tolerance and culture, are being rightwing. Not just rightwing. Extreme rightwing. I don't understand how you can be so upset about the Christian right and just ignore the Islamic right. I'm talking about equality.

If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well.

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.

There are some mosques with facilities for women; it's usually a back room with a back-door entrance.

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.

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