Islam is not a race...Islam is simply a set of beliefs, and it is not 'Islamophobic' to say Islam is incompatible with liberal democracy.

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.

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

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

You'll be pleased to hear, Christopher, that I am no longer a Muslim liberal but an atheist [....] I find that it obviates the necessity for any cognitive dissonance.

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 want people to emphasize life before death as opposed to life after death.