Those who hope to nurture genuine religiosity should first establish liberty.

I think forcing people to uncover their head is as tyrannical as forcing them to cover it.

There are strengths in Islamic tradition. Islam actually, as a monotheistic religion, which defined man as a responsible agent by itself, created the idea of the individual in the Middle East and saved it from the communitarianism, the collectivism of the tribe.

Rage is a sign of nothing but immaturity. The power of any faith comes not from its coercion of critics and dissenters. It comes from the moral integrity and the intellectual strength of its believers.

The Arab Spring has heightened the ideological tension between Ankara and Tehran, and Turkey's model seems to be winning.