However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.

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.

Reality is not easy, but all this make-believe doesn't make it easier.

The Christian take on Hellfire seems less dramatic than the Muslim vision, which I grew up with, but Christian magical thinking appeals to me no more than my mother's angels and djinns.

I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream about it.

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

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.