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.

Within our lifetime, we can remember a time when Islamism wasn't the dominant form of discourse or the aim should be to minimise the absolutists within any religious community and contain them.

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.

I am everything I am today, because of my past.

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

I had the assassins of the former president of Egypt, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood was with me in prison, the leaders of my own former group Hizb ut-Tahrir were with me in prison and so by the time I was released at the age of 28, I wasn't the man who went in at 24.