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

In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only in your private life.

What matters is abuse, and how it is anchored in a religion that denies women their rights as humans. What matters is that atrocities against women and children are carried out in Europe. What matters is that governments and societies must stop hiding behind a hollow pretense of tolerance so that they can recognize and deal with the problem.

I was a Muslim once, remember, and it was when I was most devout that I was most full of hate.

...Bear true witness, even if it be against yourselves, your parents or your family.

We who don't want radical Islam to spread must compete with the agents of radical Islam. I want to see what would happen if Christians, feminists and Enlightenment thinkers were to start proselytizing in the Muslim community.

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.