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.

In 1985 as a teenager in Kenya, I was an adamant member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

No one in the American Enterprise imposes their beliefs. We clash, and I think that's what the West is all about.

I believe that the dysfunctional Muslim family constitutes a real threat to the very fabric of western life. It is in the family that children are groomed to practise, promote and pass on the norms of their parents' culture.

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

It takes a long time to dissolve the bars of a mental cage.

It is easy to be disgruntled if you are denied rights and freedoms to which you feel entitled. But if you are not coherent, if you cannot put into words what it is that displeases you and why it is unfair and should change, then you are dismissed as an unreasonable whiner. You may be lectured about perseverance and patience, life as a test, the need to accept the higher wisdom of others.