After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think,…

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At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love...

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Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut,...

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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as...

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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in...

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The values of Islam are expressed by Muslims clearly. September 11 changed the world, and...

Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it...

Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it...

Compassion is not a popular virtue.

Compassion is not a popular virtue.

Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.

Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.

It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting...

It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting...

There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or...

There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or...