The universality of Islam is not uniformity, it is unity with diversity.

Fear is created which can lead to racism. However, we can overcome that fear through trust.

Our task is to change the world for the better, not to adapt ourselves to the world.

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

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.

You can be a very charitable capitalist. Like [Nicola] Sarkozy was saying, we have to 'moralise capitalism', which for me is a contradiction in terms.

Muslim societies must leave behind these dual aspects: secularism/Islamism.