Once you subscribe to an ideological dogma as a solution to certain grievances, it then frames your mindset..

We have to render Islamist extremism as unattractive as communism has become today..

When I returned to the United Kingdom, I found that I could no longer justify Islamist extremism as the antidote..

After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for..

I believe that preventing radicalisation is far more efficient than de-radicalisation, meaning stopping someone joining is a lot easier than trying t….

I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became..

Preying on the grievances of disaffected young men is the bedrock of Islamism..

Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society..

If we look at Abdel Nasser in Egypt as an Arab leader, he was secular..

Within our lifetime, we can remember a time when Islamism wasn't the dominant form of discourse or the aim should be to minimise the absolutists with….

If we are true small 'l' liberals, it's our job to seek out feminist Muslims, ex-Muslims, liberal Muslims, dissenting voices within Muslim communitie….

No idea is above scrutiny. No idea whatsoever. To criticize, to scrutinize and to satirize my own religion [Islam] is not Islamophobia..

I'm yet to discover any form of theocracy that isn't homophobic, that isn't bigoted to the out group..

There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. There is no equiv….

Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization..

Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and that led to my - it touched me in a way that really led to me opening up my heart, ….

I’m a Muslim, we come from a Muslim community and we are very critical of western or American foreign policy. So if I’ve got the right and if other M….

There was a genocide unfolding against Bosnian Muslims and we, in the United Kingdom, were incredibly angered - a teenager at the time, 15 years old,….

I'm a progressive. What I find is that a subsection within the left that instead of standing for consistency in progressive values, so feminism as ap….

No form of theocracy, whether it's manifested in a violent or non-violent form, is ever good for civilisation, and we have to challenge it in civil s….

It's not always the case that Muslims have been theocrats..