I want people to emphasize life before death as opposed to life after death.

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

After the horrific massacre Wednesday at the French weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, perhaps the West will finally put away its legion of useless tropes trying to deny the relationship between violence and radical Islam.

All my life I have been a nomad.

If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.

They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I took it.

I'd love to go and visit the Mosque in Mecca again, just for the sheer beauty of it, not for God - much the way a non-Catholic might go to Vatican City because of the beauty of the buildings and the artifacts.