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

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

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

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.

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

No form of theocracy, whether it's manifested in a violent or non-violent form, is ever good for civilisation, and we have to challenge it in civil society as well as we would challenge Christian-based theocracy, or any other form of bigotry.

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