I keep on repeating something told to me by an American psychologist: "When you are making a joke about someone and you are the only one to laugh, it is not a joke. It is a joke only for yourself." If people are making a joke they have the right to laugh at me but I will ignore them. Ignoring doesn't mean that you don't understand. You understand it so much that you don't want to react.

Islam came to teach us that there is no faith without intelligence and here we are: destroying our intelligence in the name of faith.

We are in a world that is connected, but is not communicating.

Saying that Islam is in heart, is similar to giving back the exam's paper completely white and saying : knowledge is in brain.

We must delve deep into history the better to engage a true dialogue of civilisations. Fear of the present can impose upon the past its own biased vision.

I am talking about anything that is a provocation - ignore it. When something falls under freedom of expression, you can read it and take a critical distance.

Many times I have asked Muslim women not to nurture the victim mentality. stand up for your rights