Two things form the bedrock of any open society—freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country. - Salman Rushdie

I must finish what I've started, even if, inevitably, what I finish turns out not to be what I began.

The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam. This very minor extremist cult, Wahhabism, was suddenly propagated across the Muslim world through madrassas and has created generations now who are steeped in this harsher, more paranoid, more confrontational version of Islam.

In the end, rage, no matter how profoundly justified, destroys the enraged. Just as we are created anew by what we love, so we are reduced and unmade by what we hate.