Europe clearly is the only place where people can speak up critically, and this is a unique cultural value.

We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.

Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home.

My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam.

Terrorism is based on two major pillars: One is injustice, and the other is a certainty of attitude, the notion that their version of the story is the correct one.

Akbar Ganji is a human rights activist in Iran and he works on freedom of expression and he does his job very well.

Those who don't understand any language other than the language of force and violence don't respect human dignity. They seek violence because they will be irrelevant without it. We should not go their way.