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.

Unlike the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth, the umma, or Muslim community, has no symbolic leader, let alone a formal one.

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

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

But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge.

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

In 1985 as a teenager in Kenya, I was an adamant member of the Muslim Brotherhood.