The only way to resist colonialism is through education.

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

Emancipation can only come from within; it cannot be dictated by someone else. A law banning the wearing of headscarves changes nothing, except perhaps external appearance. Naturally, Islamic feminism must also include the right to education, to work and the freedom to select one's own husband.

Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.

No one must ever let power or social, economic, or political interest turn him or her away from other human beings, from the attention they deserve and the respect they are entitled to. nothing must ever lead to a person to compromise this principle or faith in favor of a political strategy aimed at saving or protecting a community from some peril. The freely offered, sincere heart of a poor, powerless individual is worth a thousand times more in the sight of God than the assiduously courted, self-interested heart of a rich one.

It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.

A Muslim should be sincerely religious AND politically aware.