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

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.

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

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

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

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

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