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Every Iraqi would I know would rather have Saddam back... I mean like... that does not even take rocket science.
Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again.
The first book I ever really read was Plato's 'Republic,' and then I had to go over that five times or something.
Why should it be that just when technology is most encouraging of creativity, the law should be most restrictive?
When I returned to the United Kingdom, I found that I could no longer justify Islamist extremism as the antidote.
Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.
I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
To suggest that a Muslim cannot think for himself sounds to me very much like an incident of anti-Muslim bigotry.
I was born and raised in Essex, just outside London, to a financially comfortable, well-educated Pakistani family.
The truth is, 'Charlie Hebdo' is not a racist magazine. Rather, it is a campaigning anti-racist left-wing magazine.
Kids these days are kind of going back to Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg as examples of people that stand for something.
Rather than allowing jihadists to shut down debate, it must proliferate so much that they simply cannot kill us all.
The cheeky ideal I am calling for is that Muslims should be viewed as equal citizens, nothing more and nothing less.
What people see as fearlessness is really persistence. Because I am focused on the solution, I don't see the danger.
For peace and brotherhood, I am ready to serve the Turkish state, and I believe that for this end I must remain alive.
We can't talk about the black community. It's no longer a homogeneous community; it was never a homogeneous community.
I knew how to influence the people, but it's really just one vote. But the party is being handled in a very good way .
One great feature of modern society is the institutionalized respect we give to processes designed to destroy the past.
All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.
I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria.
What a friend we have in a tree, the tree is the symbol of hope, self improvement and what people can do for themselves.
It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.
Once people see that you improve you life if you are educated, then education becomes a valuable tool and people want it.
It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.
It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.
The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.
I really didn't grow up religious, and I didn't grow up acknowledging my Muslim identity. For me, I was a British Pakistani.
I am not scared, I will not be silenced, and I will continue to take to the streets and criticise any wrong doing that I see.
Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.
Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut."
The truth is that just as the 'West' is not a homogenous entity with one view on foreign and domestic policy, nor are Muslims.
We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.
As long as you say there is no hope, then there will be no hope, but if you go down and take a stance, then there will be hope.
Non-violent extremism is essentially the increase of intolerant and bigoted demands made by groups seeking to dominate society.
Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.
What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.
First of all, farmers should work with universities and research institutions in the country, and hopefully with the government.
The advertising media in this country continuously informs the American male of his need for indispensable signs of his virility.
To die for the racists is lighter than a feather, but to die for the people is heavier than any mountain and deeper than any sea.
When I was in the penitentiary after being accused of killing a policeman, I was more in the system in the penitentiary than ever.
Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.
I'm sure that many people who are involved in an environmental effort ... they will be pretty much encouraged by this recognition.
The stage has been reached where our armed forces should withdraw beyond the borders It's not the end. It's the start of a new era.
Show me why your regulation of culture is needed. Show me how it does good. And until you can show me both, keep your lawyers away.
We've never advocated violence; violence is inflicted upon us. But we do believe in self-defense for ourselves and for black people.
I have founded Khudi, in Pakistan, a youth movement which tries to counter extremist ideology through healthy discussion and debate.
I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.