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

I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.

Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists or sympathetic to terrorists. Equating all Muslims with terrorism is stupid and wrong. But acknowledging that there is a link between Islam and terror is appropriate and necessary.

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

I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream about it.

In the real world, equal respect for all cultures doesn't translate into a rich mosaic of colorful and proud peoples interacting peacefully while maintaining a delightful diversity of food and craftwork. It translates into closed pockets of oppression, ignorance, and abuse.

European children are educated in a narrative of human tolerance every day, and if you want to be sure to prevent a backlash, you should at least think of bringing Muslim children and teenagers into the fold of that narrative of tolerance.