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.

The idea that if people are just friendly and demonstrate they want peace, that will be answered with good will - that is really naive.

However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.

We who don't want radical Islam to spread must compete with the agents of radical Islam. I want to see what would happen if Christians, feminists and Enlightenment thinkers were to start proselytizing in the Muslim community.

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.

I wanted secular, non-Muslim people to stop kidding themselves that Islam is peace and tolerance.

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.