I Would Rather Clean Than Beg.

There Is One Islam, Unreformed, But Three Sets Of Muslims. Medina, Mecca, And. Dissidents, Reformers, Whatever You Want To Call Them. The First Group Are The Extremists And Fundamentalists, The Second The Great Mass Of Muslims Who Just Want To Live Their Lives In Peace, And The Third Are Reformers.

There Are Some Mosques With Facilities For Women; It's Usually A Back Room With A Back-door Entrance.

My Friend, The Dutch Filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, Was Murdered In 2004 For Having Been Insufficiently Reverent Toward Islam.

Infuriatingly Stupid Analysts - Especially People Who Called Themselves Arabists, Yet Who Seemed To Know Next To Nothing About The Reality Of The Islamic World - Wrote Reams Of Commentary [after 9/11]. Their Articles Were All About Islam Saving Aristotle And The Zero, Which Medieval Muslim Scholars Had Done More Than Eight Hundred Years Ago; About Islam Being A Religion Of Peace And Tolerance, Not The Slightest Bit Violent. These Were Fairy Tales, Nothing To Do With The Real World I Knew.

I Would Like To Be Judged On The Validity Of My Arguments, Not As A Victim.