No one in the American Enterprise imposes their beliefs. We clash, and I think that's what the West is all about.

We who don't want radical Islam to spread must compete with the agents of radical Islam. I want to see what would happen if Christians, feminists and Enlightenment thinkers were to start proselytizing in the Muslim community.

I love life more than I love death.

All my life I have been a nomad.

When I was with the Labor Party, I'd get into trouble because the party bosses determined that some of what I wrote, or proposed to write about, wasn't conducive to their policies or to electoral success.

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