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I am everything I am today, because of my past.
Does freedom of speech give the right to offend?
I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
Language that is designed to dehumanize has consequences.
It's not always the case that Muslims have been theocrats.
Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.
Societies should be judged by how they treat the weakest among them.
If we look at Abdel Nasser in Egypt as an Arab leader, he was secular.
I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.
Dogma not only blinds its protagonist, but it muzzles all other opposition.
The best revolutions are unplanned, and the most democratic are leaderless.
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.
Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.
Liberalism will beat totalitarianism by killing it softly, not by mimicking it.
Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.
We have to render Islamist extremism as unattractive as communism has become today.
For my own part, once I became a teenager, I experienced severe and violent racism.
I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
The University of Westminster is well known for being a hotbed of extremist activity.
Having our fundamental assumptions about life challenged is never a comfortable thing.
Quilliam will remain a priority for me because its values shape my beliefs and outlook.
Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
Chance explorations on search engines do not 'accidentally' lead users to extremist websites.
All my friends were non-Muslims. I actually knew very little about Islam - like, very little.
My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner.
In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.
Hizb ut-Tahrir spearheaded the radicalization of the 1990s and cultivated an atmosphere of anger.
My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.
I'm yet to discover any form of theocracy that isn't homophobic, that isn't bigoted to the out group.
The fact is that there is a serious problem of extremism with minority groups within Muslim communities.
The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
In prison I had the opportunity to debate and discuss people that had subscribed to all forms of Islamism.
Expressing myself through language was always something that I had had to learn to do more so than others.
Any item of clothing that covers the face and makes it impossible to identify individuals is open to abuse.
Once you subscribe to an ideological dogma as a solution to certain grievances, it then frames your mindset.
Islam will be what Muslims make of it. And it is the sum total of the interpretation that Muslims give to it.
The only way that we can win over potential jihadists to liberal democracy is by winning the battle of ideas.
The rise of ISIS in Iraq is a wider threat to the stability of the Middle East and the West than many realise.
The Bosnian Genocide was something that triggered my consciousness and led to an awakening politically for me.
I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
When I returned to the United Kingdom, I found that I could no longer justify Islamist extremism as the antidote.
Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.
To suggest that a Muslim cannot think for himself sounds to me very much like an incident of anti-Muslim bigotry.
I was born and raised in Essex, just outside London, to a financially comfortable, well-educated Pakistani family.
The truth is, 'Charlie Hebdo' is not a racist magazine. Rather, it is a campaigning anti-racist left-wing magazine.
Rather than allowing jihadists to shut down debate, it must proliferate so much that they simply cannot kill us all.
The cheeky ideal I am calling for is that Muslims should be viewed as equal citizens, nothing more and nothing less.
I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria.
I really didn't grow up religious, and I didn't grow up acknowledging my Muslim identity. For me, I was a British Pakistani.