I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.

It takes a long time to dissolve the bars of a mental cage.

As soon as something like Monty Python's 'The Life of Brian' appears with a Muhammad figure as the main lead, directed by an Arabic Theo van Gogh, the controversial late Dutch filmmaker, we will have taken an enormous step forward.

Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists or sympathetic to terrorists. Equating all Muslims with terrorism is stupid and wrong. But acknowledging that there is a link between Islam and terror is appropriate and necessary.

The people who believe themselves to be on the left, and who defend the agents of Islam in the name of tolerance and culture, are being rightwing. Not just rightwing. Extreme rightwing. I don't understand how you can be so upset about the Christian right and just ignore the Islamic right. I'm talking about equality.

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