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.

Sometimes people have said that Islam, in its own calendar, is still only in the Middle Ages.

A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight.

Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.

Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.

It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.

To respect Louis Farrakhan, we must understand, is simply to agree with him... If dissent is now also to be thought of as a form of 'dissing,' then we have indeed succumbed to the thought police.