Does freedom of speech give the right to offend?

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

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

If we are true small 'l' liberals, it's our job to seek out feminist Muslims, ex-Muslims, liberal Muslims, dissenting voices within Muslim communities, gay Muslims - we should promote those voices and in doing so, we demonstrate Islam is not a monolith, Muslims are not homogenous, and that Muslims are truly internally diverse.

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

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.