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.

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

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

I had the assassins of the former president of Egypt, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood was with me in prison, the leaders of my own former group Hizb ut-Tahrir were with me in prison and so by the time I was released at the age of 28, I wasn't the man who went in at 24.

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

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