I understand the need to serve the community by talking about marriage or halal food. But you should also lead with vision, wisdom and courage.

You're a man, but the day you raise your voice to your mother, you're not anymore.

Sometimes people confuse silence as wisdom when in fact it is compromise.

Salafi is a very broad concept in Islam. What we have now is, like, for example, the Nour Party in Egypt or the Salafi in Tunisia are people who, in fact, we call very often Wahhabi, following the Saudi school of thought and law. And they are literalists in the way where it's black and white, there's a very narrow interpretation of the scriptural sources. For decades, we knew that they were there, but they were not involved in politics. What is completely new for all of us over the last years is that they are now within the political arena and playing the democratic game.

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

Having traveled a lot and met people from different horizons it makes you more humble and ready to listen.

It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.