The truth is, 'Charlie Hebdo' is not a racist magazine. Rather, it is a campaigning anti-racist left-wing magazine.

There are members - very, very close and dear members - of my family - I'm talking immediate family - who simply don't speak to me anymore and haven't done so for years. My marriage fell apart.

As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.

The only certainty we have is that those who are certain of a way to arrive at worldly salvation, are committed enough to organize around this, and seek power to enforce it, will invariably descend into a bloody totalitarian fascism.

Neoconservatism had the philosophy that you go in with a supply-led approach to impose democratic values from the top down. Whereas Islamists and far-right organizations, for decades, have been building demand for their ideology on the grassroots.

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.

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.

I was in prison with pretty much the who's who of the jihadist and Islamist scene of Egypt at the time, and Egypt was the cradle of Islamism for the world - it's where it began and where jihadism began as well.

The British and French governments have taken a strong stance against 'extremist content' online when addressing their approach to tackling extremism.

I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria.

One of the problems we're facing is, in my view, that there are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies.

I used to MC a bit when I was young - 14 or 15 years old.

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

Expressing myself through language was always something that I had had to learn to do more so than others.

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

What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.

Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.

The only way we can challenge Islamism is to engage with one another. We need to make it as abhorrent as racism has become today. Only then will we stem the tide of angry young Muslims who turn to hate.

The rise of ISIS in Iraq is a wider threat to the stability of the Middle East and the West than many realise.

Non-violent extremism is essentially the increase of intolerant and bigoted demands made by groups seeking to dominate society.

I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.

Islam will be what Muslims make of it. And it is the sum total of the interpretation that Muslims give to it.

I was imprisoned in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks, when Egypt's state security was rounding people up in unprecedented numbers.