When you believe in what you are doing, when you are seeking justice for the killing of Daniel Pearl, when you want to alert public opinion to the plight of the massacred people of Darfur, or in the recently martyred former Soviet republic Georgia, it makes more sense to use the media than to work in silence.

If you trace the history of Islamist terrorism, you see that its founders were great admirers of European fascism. They read the texts of European fascism, they quoted them in speeches and letters. This is not from the Koran - the Koran doesn't teach you how to repress people; there's nothing in there about women having to cover their faces, there's certainly nothing about suicide bombing.

Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well.

Islamic terrorists are new examples of an old problem with fascism.

Even if it doesn't sound like it at first, that's an identity that Europe can go out into the world with and take a leading role.

I would sooner want a strong partnership with the United States - even with (US President George W.) Bush, who I think is the worst president in a long, long time. I would sooner want a friendship with Bush than with (Russian President Vladimir) Putin.

For me, dressing is always a question of principle, respect, a sense of order, not to disguise myself, even in rotten places.