The idea that the West was economically successful because of slavery, it's just nonsense.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: this triptych succinctly defines the attractiveness and superiority of Western civilization.

Abolitionism did not find positive response in Africa as it did in Western societies and cultures.

In Saudi Arabia, among other countries, Muslims are not free to convert to Christianity, and Christians are not free to practice their faith. The Koran is not a rights-respecting document.

You can't grow up without taking a few knocks on the way. All parents know that, but children when they're growing up, they take some knocks, and nasty knocks sometimes if they've been too protected.

Being from a minority culture, I realised the importance of looking at non-Western cultures in a positive way.

All religions are sick men's dreams, false - demonstrably false - and pernicious.