The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets.

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

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

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

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.

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

What matters is abuse, and how it is anchored in a religion that denies women their rights as humans. What matters is that atrocities against women and children are carried out in Europe. What matters is that governments and societies must stop hiding behind a hollow pretense of tolerance so that they can recognize and deal with the problem.