I am everything I am today, because of my past..

In prison I had the opportunity to debate and discuss people that had subscribed to all forms of Islamism..

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

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

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….

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….

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

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

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,….

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

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

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….

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

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

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

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….

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

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, ….

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

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