French laicite is probably aggressive and antagonistic to the religion, but there are other models of secularism in the world where there could be reconciliation between religion and secularism.

We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other people's religion, and we have a long tradition of that.

Under Tunisian law, a woman can divorce her husband. Total equality.

In our modern age - in the age of free information - I don't think there is any place for dictatorships.

Some people believe the alternative to bad religion is secularism, but that's wrong . . . . The answer to bad religion is better religion--prophetic rather than partisan, broad and deep instead of narrow, and based on values as opposed to ideology.

In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.