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

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

Does freedom of speech give the right to offend?

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

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

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.

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