“Our religious police has the most dangerous effect on society – the segregation of genders, putting the wrong ideas in the heads of men and women, producing psychological diseases that never existed in our country before, like fanatacism.”

On the whole it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.

The only circumstance that a woman can ask for a divorce or a khali is when her husband is in total agreement with her or if she comes from a very powerful family who decide to back her up.

I am a very public person. I have nothing to hide.

Today in Saudi, women are either at the mercy of their husbands or at the mercy of judges who tend to side with the husbands.

Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.

The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.

But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices

The number of people who consider themselves to be religious and going to services is dropping, and the number of people who consider themselves to be spiritual but not religious is increasing.

There were many reasons we broke up. There was a religious difference: I’m a Catholic, and she’s the devil.

I love to believe that there’s one god but there’s many different religions so there’s just the question of which long distance company you pick.

I am a Catholic. Basically, the Catholic religion is ‘If it feels good – stop.’

Right now, culturally, we’re seeing a really interesting evolution in ideas about spirituality and the world, right?

There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!

Japa, Bhajana and Kirtana are superficial to the extent that we are not humble.