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Show me a university which is a hotbed of thin-skinned offence-taking, where every unacceptable idea is policed and every person who happens to hold one is hounded out of a job, and I will show you a university that isn't a university but an ideological prison camp and indoctrination centre.

Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.

We cannot hope to effectively counter extremism if we just focus on schools, universities and prisons: we need to take this online as well.

College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity.

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

Since 9/11, some of the most violent terrorists we've encountered were radicalized or recruited at universities.

I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward.

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

I'm not an extremist, you know.