We fail when we try to give simple answers to complicated problems.

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

Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.

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.

Islamism implies some sort of political and social plan for Muslim people. In that classification, we find different categories. Legalist ones, traditional ones and revolutionary ones. Some of them are revolutionary but are non-violent, others are extremely violent. There are also the ones we call the literalists, like the Egyptian party Hizb al-Nour that used to be against democracy and now is getting into the political game.

What I'm advocating is an intellectual revolution - it's a different mindset concerning the ethical benchmarks by which we live.

Nevertheless, I have no political agenda whatsoever, even though some might think the contrary.