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

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.

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

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'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.

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

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.