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

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.

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

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.

I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.

In prison I had the opportunity to debate and discuss people that had subscribed to all forms of Islamism.