Muslim leaders should ask themselves what exactly their relationship is to a political movement that encourages young men to kill and maim on religious grounds.

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

I wanted secular, non-Muslim people to stop kidding themselves that Islam is peace and tolerance.

There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance

If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well.

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

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.