Where I work, in the Arab region, people are busy taking up Western innovations and changing them into things which are neither conventionally Western, nor are they traditionally Islamic.
If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.
The condition of women in Islamic societies as a whole is also far from desirable. However, we should acknowledge that there are differences. In certain countries, the conditions are much better and in others much worse.
Al-Qa'ida seeks to portray America as an enemy of the world's Muslims. But President Obama has made it clear that the United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.
Well, today, we are in the struggle brought on to us by the terrorists of Islam. It is a war that we did not choose. It was a war that was declared against us as Americans, against our people, against our Constitution.
Before turning 32 is an amazing time to do radical things. You figure out who you are while you figure out who you are not.
The road less traveled continues to beckon me onward, towards a journey of transformation and engagement.
The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.
In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.
Radical honesty with oneself is an exquisite risk; that yields the reward of claiming ownership of the power to amaze yourself.
I thought I was really a radical, political person, which of course I am not.
The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives.
W- Work of Art A- Achiever R- Resilient R- Radical I- Independent O- Organized R- Resourceful
It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.
The environment doesn't change that radically. You are still going to go home at night and NBC is going to be there, ABC and CBS will still be there.
Obama's defiantly vowed not only to radically expand the reach of government from cradle to grave, but to smash the Constitution's restrictions on government power while doing it.
If Obama wanted to make radical changes to America's health long-term, all he has to do is treble the price of sugar and salt.
Unless things change radically, President Bush will be the first President since Herbert Hoover to have presided over a net loss of jobs during his administration.
I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this.
The battleground has been moderates of all faith traditions in all the countries of the world against the radicals of all faith traditions in all parts of the world.
While, in general, life satisfaction goes up with wealth, beyond the safety net more and more wealth brings very radically diminishing returns on life satisfaction.
