All my life I have been a nomad.

In 1985 as a teenager in Kenya, I was an adamant member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

I see no difference between Islam and Islamism. Islam is defined as submission to the will of Allah, as it is described in the Koran. Islamism is just Islam in its most pure form.

Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between Islam and the west. But a radical minority of Muslims firmly believes that Islam is under siege, and is committed to winning the holy war it has declared against the West.

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

Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.

I'd like Muslims to look at their religion as a set of beliefs that they can appraise critically and pick and choose from.