I would rather clean than beg.

I'd love to go and visit the Mosque in Mecca again, just for the sheer beauty of it, not for God - much the way a non-Catholic might go to Vatican City because of the beauty of the buildings and the artifacts.

We must reclaim and retake feminism from our fellow idiotic women.

Young people, some of whom are not born into the faith, are being fired up by preachers using basic Islamic scripture and mobilized to wage jihad by radical imams who represent themselves as legitimate Muslim clergymen.

However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.

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

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.