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.

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.

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

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

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.

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