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

I believe my religion is the truth, but I am not the truth and the truth doesn't belong to me I'm trying to belong to the truth.

You can't have anything happening today within the petro-monarchies, is going to be too risky for the United States and the oil interests there.

Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.

Just take Germany and the suffering of Jews during and after the Second World War. It would be legal to ridicule and to laugh at this suffering, but since it was such a trauma on the European conscience, no one is going to do it. It is an open scar, an open wound, an open reality.

I had no intention to cover my tracks since I am not a politician and I do not represent anybody.

Even the concept of the infidel is misleading, because the infidel is normally someone with a different faith, someone who refuses to recognize the truth of the words of the Koran, as revealed by God. He has every right to do so, as long as he does not question my right to believe in my truth.