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.

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.

Does freedom of speech give the right to offend?

There was a genocide unfolding against Bosnian Muslims and we, in the United Kingdom, were incredibly angered - a teenager at the time, 15 years old, so my young teenage mind processed that in a way typical to the very passionate and angry and black-and-white way that teenagers often can do.

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

If we look at Abdel Nasser in Egypt as an Arab leader, he was secular.

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