Feeling sympathy and searching for explanations isn't the same as believing that the violence is justified.

True Sufism is resistance: spiritual, intellectual, social, cultural, political and economic resistance. It cannot be, for sure, supporting dictators.

I am saying the same to Muslims in the global South, telling them: "Just ignore what is done." However, in the Southern countries they are not living in a comfortable society like you and me. They deal with unemployment, corruption, and surviving. For the majority of them, their religion is helping them survive.

Compelling a woman to wear a headscarf is against Islam, and compelling her to remove it is against human rights.

The only way to resist colonialism is through education.

I am portrayed as a dangerous individual who can be fought thanks to their ideas.

Modesty is the way you deal with beauty not the way you avoid it.