My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.

People ask me if I have some kind of death wish, to keep saying the things I do. The answer is no: I would like to keep living. However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.

In Holland I have seen well-meaning, principled people blinded by multiculturalism, overwhelmed by the imperative to be sensitive and respectful of immigrant culture, while ignoring criminal abuse of women and girls.

There's peacetime and there's wartime, and you don't need polarization on wartime issues. You need polarization on all other issues.

I accept that there are multitudes seeking God, seeking meaning, and so on, but if they reject atheism, I would rather they became modern-day Catholics or Jews than that they became Muslims.

I'd like Muslims to look at their religion as a set of beliefs that they can appraise critically and pick and choose from.