I believe that preventing radicalisation is far more efficient than de-radicalisation, meaning stopping someone joining is a lot easier than trying to pull someone out once they've joined.

When I returned to the United Kingdom, I found that I could no longer justify Islamist extremism as the antidote.

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

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

I'm a progressive. What I find is that a subsection within the left that instead of standing for consistency in progressive values, so feminism as applied to mainstream society, as well as within minority communities, gay rights to mainstream society as well as within minority communities.

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.

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