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 would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.

There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance

In 2010, I suggested that if you are a good Muslim with a good conscience, go and look for a better God, and I think that was juvenile of me.

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

The idea that if people are just friendly and demonstrate they want peace, that will be answered with good will - that is really naive.

There is one Islam, unreformed, but three sets of Muslims. Medina, Mecca, and. Dissidents, reformers, whatever you want to call them. The first group are the extremists and fundamentalists, the second the great mass of Muslims who just want to live their lives in peace, and the third are reformers.