"At the end of the day we can only have one big wish: that all beings are happy and free from suffering. That people are free from fear and experience the happiness and love that they are looking for. That they are able to fill their lives with meaning and joy by doing good and avoiding harming others.
Criticizing Islam and Muslim culture is like shooting fish in a barrel, but we are not intellectual sadists. We do it for the good of all parties. You can hate the system, but when it comes to living people, you can only wish them good. Systems can be evil, but when people do things that they think will bring them happiness but which actually result in the opposite, they are obviously confused. People act the way they feel, and bad actions are therefore first of all motivated by unpleasant inner states. When people are not able to learn from their own mistakes and therefore react on their self-inflicted pain in destructive ways -- increasing the problems that their actions were meant to solve -- we can only wish them more happiness and understanding of how they create their own lives."
