Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and that led to my - it touched me in a way that really led to me opening up my heart, I've called it the re-humanisation process.

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

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

Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.

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.

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

Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.