My brother thinks it is very, very bad that I left Islam. My half-sister wants to convert me back; I want to convert her to Western values. My mum is terrified that when I die, and we all go to God, I will be burned.

Every time I went on TV I got a threat.

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

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

I call myself a liberal - a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill.

My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam.

Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.