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

The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and the appalling treatment of black people during the civil rights movement. At the same time, they want to continue to defend the rights of individuals.

We had a world dominated by the Soviet Union on the one hand, and the Americans on the other hand. They called it the Cold War. But it wasn't cold. I am someone who comes from the third world. In the third world, the cold war wasn't cold. Millions had been killed. It was a proxy war.

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

Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.

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

I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned English.