A realistic view of humanity will stop the proliferation of impossible injunctions.

It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma.

Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.

The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.

If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.

It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.