What I find daunting always is to stand on a stage and talk to people, whether they agree with me or not.

I assume the closest members of my family don't actually want to kill me, but the truth is that I have shamed and hurt them; they have to deal with the outrage that my public statements cause, and undoubtedly some members of my clan do want to kill me for that.

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

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

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

The veil deliberately marks women as private and restricted property, nonpersons. The veil sets women apart from men and apart from the world; it restrains them, confines them, grooms them for docility. A mind can be cramped just as a body may be, and a Muslim veil blinkers both your vision and your destiny. It is the mark of a kind of apartheid, not the domination of a race but of a sex.

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