We have to render Islamist extremism as unattractive as communism has become today.

No idea is above scrutiny. No idea whatsoever. To criticize, to scrutinize and to satirize my own religion [Islam] is not Islamophobia.

There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. There is no equivalent of Al-Qaeda without the terrorism.

Does freedom of speech give the right to offend?

Once you subscribe to an ideological dogma as a solution to certain grievances, it then frames your mindset.

Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.

After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.

I believe that preventing radicalisation is far more efficient than de-radicalisation, meaning stopping someone joining is a lot easier than trying to pull someone out once they've joined.

In prison I had the opportunity to debate and discuss people that had subscribed to all forms of Islamism.

I am everything I am today, because of my past.

Within our lifetime, we can remember a time when Islamism wasn't the dominant form of discourse or the aim should be to minimise the absolutists within any religious community and contain them.

Don't try to fix me, I'm not broken...

Because of grace so many people will miss salvation

Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.

Gentle in what you do, Firm in how you do it

Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.

I have gained and lost the same 10 pounds so many times over and over again my cellulite must have deja vu!

If you want to deserve Hell, you need only stay in bed. The world is iniquity; if you accept it, you are an accomplice, if you change it you are an executioner.

I don't think a living being should suffer for the sake of fashion, period. End of story. You don't have to kill an animal just because you want to be hot and fly. And I really stand by that.

A pack of lemmings looks like a group of rugged individualists compared with Wall Street when it gets a concept in its teeth.

If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?