Within our lifetime, we can remember a time when Islamism wasn't the dominant form of discourse or the aim should be to minimise the absolutists within any religious community and contain them.

I am everything I am today, because of my past.

I'm yet to discover any form of theocracy that isn't homophobic, that isn't bigoted to the out group.

No form of theocracy, whether it's manifested in a violent or non-violent form, is ever good for civilisation, and we have to challenge it in civil society as well as we would challenge Christian-based theocracy, or any other form of bigotry.

If we look at Abdel Nasser in Egypt as an Arab leader, he was secular.

Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.

I'm a progressive. What I find is that a subsection within the left that instead of standing for consistency in progressive values, so feminism as applied to mainstream society, as well as within minority communities, gay rights to mainstream society as well as within minority communities.