It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

I think the United States and its British attack dog are not taken seriously anywhere in the world and can play no role in helping a political solution.

The "coalition against terrorism" means the United States. It does not wish anyone else to interfere with its strategy.

There was a good moment in Islam when people were actually challenging authority at every level. Very different from the world we live in.

The implication strongly is that Osama bin Laden is a Hitler, even though he has no state power at all. It's just grotesque if you seriously think about it.

We have populations now in the West with a very short memory span. One reason for this short memory span is that television over the last fifteen years has seen a big decline in the coverage of the rest of the world.

The EU is an alliance that the Americans control, in which the EU of course has a great deal of autonomy, but in which it still is very dependent on the United States, especially militarily, but not only in that respect. So to blame the Germans for everything is an easy way out for some of those suffering in Europe today.