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

The Bosnian Genocide was something that triggered my consciousness and led to an awakening politically for me.

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

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

There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. There is no equivalent of Al-Qaeda without the terrorism.

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, so my young teenage mind processed that in a way typical to the very passionate and angry and black-and-white way that teenagers often can do.

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've called it the re-humanisation process.