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.

Preying on the grievances of disaffected young men is the bedrock of Islamism.

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

Does freedom of speech give the right to offend?

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.

In prison I had the opportunity to debate and discuss people that had subscribed to all forms of Islamism.

It's not always the case that Muslims have been theocrats.