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.

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

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

Preying on the grievances of disaffected young men is the bedrock of Islamism.

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

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.

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.