Maajid Nawaz

Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again.

In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.

Being veterans of the struggle to push back against fundamentalist Christians, American liberals are well acquainted with the pitfalls of the neoconservative flirtation with the religious-right.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock 'n' roll artists. They just play their hits and that's it. That doesn't appeal to me.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.