Poetry, I'm often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of poetry.
If we look at Abdel Nasser in Egypt as an Arab leader, he was secular.
No idea is above scrutiny. No idea whatsoever. To criticize, to scrutinize and to satirize my own religion [Islam] is not Islamophobia.
There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. There is no equivalent of Al-Qaeda without the terrorism.
Does freedom of speech give the right to offend?
Once you subscribe to an ideological dogma as a solution to certain grievances, it then frames your mindset.
No form of theocracy, whether it's manifested in a violent or non-violent form, is ever good for civilisation, and we have to challenge it in civil society as well as we would challenge Christian-based theocracy, or any other form of bigotry.
When you're running, when you're in elected office, you're surrounded with power. And, so every single day, you have to remind yourself why you're here, and that people put you here for a reason.
Mr. that boy couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane.
Mickey Mouse. . . is always there-he's part of my life. That really is something not everyone can call their claim to fame.
You cannot learn what you are made of if you rely on anyone or anything else to help you.