Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.

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.

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

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

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

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

I had the assassins of the former president of Egypt, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood was with me in prison, the leaders of my own former group Hizb ut-Tahrir were with me in prison and so by the time I was released at the age of 28, I wasn't the man who went in at 24.