Before someone can change his ideas, he has to open his heart.

In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.

The only way that we can win over potential jihadists to liberal democracy is by winning the battle of ideas.

In today's Britain, the weakest among us are often assumed to be minority communities. In fact, the weakest are those minorities-within-minorities for whom the legal right to exit from their communities' constraints amounts to nothing before the enforcement of cultural and religious shaming.

I was filled with hate and anger. But during my trial, something decisive happened: Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and it was an unbelievable feeling to know that there is someone fighting for you on the outside. Amnesty's 'soft' approach made me seriously consider alternatives to revenge.

Rather than allowing jihadists to shut down debate, it must proliferate so much that they simply cannot kill us all.