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

I have had to pay a price for leaving Islam and for speaking out. I have to pay for round-the-clock security because of the death threats against me.

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.

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

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

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.

The idea that if people are just friendly and demonstrate they want peace, that will be answered with good will - that is really naive.