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

No idea is above scrutiny. No idea whatsoever. To criticize, to scrutinize and to satirize my own religion [Islam] is not Islamophobia.

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.

Does freedom of speech give the right to offend?

Once you subscribe to an ideological dogma as a solution to certain grievances, it then frames your mindset.

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

After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.

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.

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

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

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.

You will need to invest every bit of your time into your destiny and purpose if you truly desire to be great.

Wealth of good manners is what no one can steal from you. You can keep it with you wherever you go.

It is one of those stories that you just want to keep going and going - even after the last page has been reached. Kristie Leigh Maguire

A little help is worth a great deal of pity.

I'm off to find my world, my dreams, Carve my niche, sew my seams, Remember, as I sail my streams- I'll love you all the way.

I always was a funny guy, the class clown. I had a very funny dad and an extremely funny grandmother.

It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.

Sacrificers ... are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those that they sacrifice. Oh, the sacrificers, they get it both ways. A person knows themselves that they're able to do without.

The first thing the communists do when they take over a country is to outlaw cockfighting