We need modesty not only in the way we dress; we need intellectual modesty.

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.

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

A Muslim should be sincerely religious AND politically aware.

The universe is pregnant with signs that recall the presence of the Creator.

Acknowledged differences may create mutual respect, but hazy misunderstandings bring forth nothing but prejudice and rejection.

The problem with Salafis is that they are religiously sincere and politically naïve. And they allow themselves to be supported by people who have no religious sincerity but who are politically very smart, especially when it comes to their economic interests.