On campus after campus I would stare in despair at these confident young men and women, born in the United States, who had so manifestly benefited fr… - Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I believe the honor-and-shame culture can be discarded. To think otherwise is to define Muslims as as incapable of growth and adaptation, and I can’t think of anything more pejorative and racist.

Islam is not just a belief; it is a way of life, a violent way of life. Islam is imbued with violence, and it encourages violence.
Muslim children all over the world are taught the way I was: taught with violence, taught to perpetuate violence, taught to wish for violence against the infidel, the Jew, the American Satan.
I belong to a small group of lucky people who have escaped the permanent closure of my mind through education.

Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.