So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy.

I've long been really intrigued with what is the... proper role of faith and religion in public life.

The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another.

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.