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

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

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

If we are true small 'l' liberals, it's our job to seek out feminist Muslims, ex-Muslims, liberal Muslims, dissenting voices within Muslim communities, gay Muslims - we should promote those voices and in doing so, we demonstrate Islam is not a monolith, Muslims are not homogenous, and that Muslims are truly internally diverse.

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

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

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