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

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.

In 1985 as a teenager in Kenya, I was an adamant member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

What I find daunting always is to stand on a stage and talk to people, whether they agree with me or not.

Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage.

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

In Holland I have seen well-meaning, principled people blinded by multiculturalism, overwhelmed by the imperative to be sensitive and respectful of immigrant culture, while ignoring criminal abuse of women and girls.