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She was sitting there quietly in the middle of the classroom -- a Swedish Muslim all dressed in black with a white powdered face. I was lecturing on John Stuart Mill at Sweden's University West. What did I say? I said that while religion may not be true, it still gives people a sense of belonging and trust, and liberal society cannot give you that. The liberal soup is thin, and most of us want something richer, some kind of political main-course goulash. When people say that liberal society is empty, they actually mean this: I cannot give my life any purpose, so can someone kindly do it for me? Please hand me some grandiose message to live by because I cannot figure out anything on my own. Emptiness? Well, that could be another word for limitless opportunities.
Two days later, the Muslim student sent me an email. She accused me of not being "neutral". She wrote that I had called religious people "pathetic". I had not. She accused me of defaming Islam, herself as a woman and as an individual student.