It is important that the Muslim leaders, scholars, and intellectuals are much more vocal and explain what Islam is.

To those who say "Sufism is apolitical" or "no politics," I respond: "No politics is politics." Look at the very old African Sufi tradition, the Asian Sufi tradition, or the North African Sufi tradition. Then you get it and understand what Sufism is all about wisdom, courage and resistance.

No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.

I don't buy anything which is Islamization of knowledge. I don't understand what it means in fact.

I don't like this vision that Turkey is successful because it is as successful as the western powers in economic terms. But I do think they are trying to find a new space in the multi-polar world, and this is what I am advocating. I don't think that Muslims have an alternative model.

Sometimes people confuse silence as wisdom when in fact it is compromise.

If there is a smoke, there is a fire, the saying goes, That is quite true, but one should find what the fire is, and who lit it.