Authoritarians tend to consolidate support by using fear, but more importantly by driving a wedge among the people that they want to control.

What's happened in the United States is something that has already happened in Europe and that is that Islam is become 'otherised', it has become a kind of receptacle into which fears and anxieties about the political or economic situation, about the changing racial landscape of this country are being thrown.

Mike Huckabee and indeed many of the Christian conservatives in the U.S. have far more in common with the Muslim Brotherhood than they'd like to admit, in that all of them very much want to see a role of religion in society.

The only question that matters with regard to a religion and its mythology is “What do these stories mean?

A politician is a politician whether he's wearing a suit or a funny hat.

The idea that education will lead to a lessening of bigotry is just factually incorrect.

The Revolutionary Guard controls almost everything in Iran, and this is hurting the people.