We have to free the Muslim mind from the obsession with limits and rules and forgetting the path and objective. This is truly a liberating process, and for me this is Islam: liberation from the ego, and in this case liberating ourselves from the wrong understanding of the religion.

I have learned that one should say "Peace!" to those who shout their hatred for one's being and presence or at one's passage.

The West hasn't been naïve, it has been patronizing the South by imposing its own views on what should be done - ironically after having been so close and so supportive of dictators who were not respecting the people.

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

Prayer is better than to sleep. Wake up. Wake up & pray. This is the way you free yourself.

Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.

Populism is everywhere. We have religious populism in the Muslim-majority countries as much as we have populism in the United States of America.