I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
Preying on the grievances of disaffected young men is the bedrock of Islamism.
Does freedom of speech give the right to offend?
I am everything I am today, because of my past.
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.
No form of theocracy, whether it's manifested in a violent or non-violent form, is ever good for civilisation, and we have to challenge it in civil society as well as we would challenge Christian-based theocracy, or any other form of bigotry.