Ibn Warraq is our world's leading ex-Muslim dissident. He has written books that have inspired and educated Westerners for more than twenty years: 'Why I am Not a Muslim,' 'Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism,' 'Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy,' 'Virgins? What Virgins?,' 'What the Koran Really Says,' among others. I am privileged to be his friend and colleague.