So they say...

We're living in an increasingly non-religious environment and superheroes are our gods at the moment. They're like the Norse or Greek gods: unreliable characters with incredible powers. What's fun about them is that they're already consciously an allegory. God is never an allegory.
The actor James McAvoy

I stand in religious solidarity with Muslims because they, like me, a Christian, are people of the book.
Wheaton College's associate professor of Political Science, Dr Larycia Hawkins, who wore a headscarf in response to what she described as vitriolic rhetoric directed at Muslims. As a result the private Christian college has suspended her.

When I was told that I won, I cried with joy, the happiness of any human being who gets something for the first time.
Salma bint Hazab al-Otaibi, who won a seat in Mecca in the first elections in Saudia Arabia in which women were allowed to take part. There were many restrictions, and the election was for only two thirds of seats in councils that have no lawmaking powers. Nevertheless the Grand Mufti described it as 'opening the door to evil'.