“If I don’t have the freedom to disbelieve, I cannot believe.”

The divides are not Islam and western society, the divide is between people who have different values. We must promote connections between people who want to contribute to human values.

People who share that commitment can collaborate across cultural divides.

It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.

My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.

I get bitter, angry and disbelieving and I tell my kids there a lot of idiots out there.

We need to block out the outside world; we need to disbelieve anything that would doubt us, because everyone will doubt us if we allow them that space.