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I tend not to believe radical Muslim movements.

Our work in Britain suggests that radicalization is driven by an ideology which claims that Muslims around the world are being oppressed and - and this is the key bit of the argument - which then legitimizes violence in their supposed defense.

The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims.

The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way.

These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.

They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders, not the Muslim masses.

This radical Islam is a religious-based ideology. And you actually have to, when you deal with the ideology, you have to attack it on that basis.

De-radicalisation begins by breaking down the logic which once seemed unassailable and rethinking what you are fighting for and why. That is hard to do when Islamists and Islamophobes feed off each other's hateful cliches.

What I see in the Arab world, in Egypt, everywhere is increasing radicalization.

Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.