I think that political parties are fuelling this fear in order to create divisions. The more we bring up fear, the more we neglect real political issues. Political debate in France is crumbling since every single issue is brought to Islam now.

Tell me what you are doing with your suffering, and I will tell you who you are.

Criticizing to destroy is easy, thinking in order to build is much more difficult to achieve

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.

There is nothing more Islamic than critical thinking.

Still I have been invited I don't know how many times to Turkey, where Turkey has been following very quickly in the footsteps of what is sometimes referred to as the movement of cyber-dissidents. They have been training young people and also encouraging them to come into contact with western Muslims.

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.