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.

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

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.

Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.

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

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.

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