Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.

Humility is knowing that you can get an answer from anybody: be it a child, another person, or nature.

If you read the Qur'an with your head, you find repetition. If you read it with your heart, you find depth.

The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars

Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.

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.

Those organisations, al-Qaeda being the first one, have all settled in areas full of mining and oil resources or in geostrategic zones. They settled in Afghanistan which underground is filled with oil and lithium. North Mali is filled with mining resources (uranium). It is essential to question the impact and role of some international players that create or let those organisations settle there.