You have to let individuals make their own choices and respect that, even if it's your own child. And that's what was taken away from me. My father passed away thinking I still had to go back to his way of believing.

I talk about a Christianity that is enlightened enough to separate spirituality from the rest of life. Not just church and state, but knowledge and church.

If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.

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

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

In April 2006, a Dutch court ordered that I leave my safe-home that I was renting from the State. The judge concluded that my neighbors had a right to argue that they felt unsafe because of my presence in the building.

The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets.