A Poet's Work Is To

The Glamour Of Being Forbidden Must Not Be Underestimated.

Islam Is Unusual In That It's The Only One Of The Great World Religions Which Was Born Inside Recorded History. That There's An Enormous Amount Of Factual Historical Record About The Life Of A Prophet And About Social Conditions In Arabia At That Time. So It's Possible To Look At The Origin Of Islam In A Scholarly Way.

Sometimes When You Finish A Book, You Don't Know Quite What You've Got.

Two Things Form The Bedrock Of Any Open Society - Freedom Of Expression And Rule Of Law. If You Don't Have Those Things, You Don't Have A Free Country.

You Start At The Stupid End Of The Book, And If You're Lucky You Finish At The Smart End.