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We have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts.

But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.

There's no conflict between the social-welfare state and open markets.

Fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other.

Change is no threat to culture.

Similarly, it is argued that the culture of Islam is incompatible with democracy. Basically, this conventional perspective of the Middle East thus contends that democracy in that region is neither possible nor even desirable.

There is no conflict in the world that cannot be solved.

In Indonesia, Malaysia, wherever Muslims are living, they don't want to live in harmony.

There is no future for Tunisia without consensus among political parties and members of civil society.