One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.

The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.

If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without which their countries' freedom will remain a distant dream.

I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.

This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.

What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accomodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloody-minded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze? – The kind that will almost certainly, ninety-nine times out of hundred, be smashed to bits; but, the hundredth time, will change the world.

A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.