Does freedom of speech give the right to offend?

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

We have to render Islamist extremism as unattractive as communism has become today.

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

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

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.

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