I focus on Islamic applied ethics in many fields, and here I am saying that coming back to the Qu'ran and the sunnah as our reference point does not mean that we depend for our ethics on 'Islam as opposed to the others'.

It's okay to feel the need for protection if there is a real external threat. But to feel protective from the inside, it's a kind of jail: you get so protective that you cannot get out of the box.

When you're overwhelmed by your emotion, you listen less and you judge more. This is also the reality of the dogmatic mind.

We need more citizens that are committed and courageous.

Islam has no problem with women, but Muslims do clearly appear to have serious problems with them

I had no intention to cover my tracks since I am not a politician and I do not represent anybody.

To Islamize doesn't make sense to me. But to center, but to have intellectual empathy and modesty - all these dimensions are important on how we look at truth.