We must reclaim and retake feminism from our fellow idiotic women.

I assume the closest members of my family don't actually want to kill me, but the truth is that I have shamed and hurt them; they have to deal with the outrage that my public statements cause, and undoubtedly some members of my clan do want to kill me for that.

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

Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.

It is easy to be disgruntled if you are denied rights and freedoms to which you feel entitled. But if you are not coherent, if you cannot put into words what it is that displeases you and why it is unfair and should change, then you are dismissed as an unreasonable whiner. You may be lectured about perseverance and patience, life as a test, the need to accept the higher wisdom of others.

I'd like Muslims to look at their religion as a set of beliefs that they can appraise critically and pick and choose from.

All my life I have been a nomad.