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.

The demand that Islam makes of women is to not attract attention to yourself, and if you are in a secular society, that attire does exactly that, and it is a political symbol, no longer religious.

I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned English.

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

I don't believe there is such a thing as 'moderate Islam.' I think it's better to talk about degrees of belief and degrees of practice.

They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I took it.

My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.