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Ungoverned spaces in the Islamic world will be exploited by people who wish us ill. They will not be contained.

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

Everyone needs to be able to have their own space in which to be themselves.

Jihad expands Islam's domain by any means available.

I have traveled a lot in the world, and wherever Islam is in charge, it's just terrible.

Islam is, to be sure, a big tent, and the one and a half billion Muslims in the world run the gamut from mystical, moderate, pacific Sufis to Salafists.