The European Union has lost virtually all of its credibility amongst large swaths of the European population.

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 whole history of the 20th century is a history of resistance groups which are either nationalist or, in large parts of the Muslim word, religious groups.

The West and its media have barely covered the recent wave of repression in Turkey. The reason is simple. They are paying billions to Ankara to control and take back the refugees of the Syrian war. They are fearful that if they offend Tayyip Erdogan he will use the refugees as a political weapon. So they keep quiet.

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

Tony Blair is a war criminal.

Dear old al-Maarri was a great skeptic poet. He wrote a parody of the Koran, and his friends would tease him and say, "al-Maarri, but no one says your Koran." And he said, "Yes, but give me time. Give me time. If people recite it for twenty years it will become as popular as the other one."