To be more precise, it's ethics and liberation, and as a consequence there is an ethics of liberation.

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 focus on Islamic applied ethics in many fields, and here I am saying that coming back to the Qu'ran and the sunnah as our reference point does not mean that we depend for our ethics on 'Islam as opposed to the others'.

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

We should not fool ourselves. When the Quran says wa la qad karamna Bani Adam ["we have honored the Children of Adam"] so yes we should all be free but this should not mean that we must act against the dignity of human beings.

There is dignity in your being even if there's indignity in what you're doing.

The problem with what we call the 'Arab spring' is that these are very nationalistic experiences. Tunisians are concerned with Tunisia, Egyptians concerned with Egypt and so on.