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

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

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 within any religious community and contain them.

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.

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

Does freedom of speech give the right to offend?

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 applied to mainstream society, as well as within minority communities, gay rights to mainstream society as well as within minority communities.