Maajid Nawaz,absolute hero, for those who do not know he used to be full Islamist, locked up in Egypt for it. He started the Quilliam Foundation and spends his life stamping out Islamist theocratic fascism. Islamists regularly threaten to get rid of him.
who was formally a member of radical Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir, is now seeking to challenge the narrative of Islamic extremists and form a more moderate Islam.
"We need a rational conversation about reforming Islam," Nawaz told Yahoo7.
Nawaz said even non-Muslims have a role to play in this reform.
"You don't need to be black to challenge racism, you don't need to be gay to challenge homophobia, and you don't need to be a Muslim to challenge Islam.
"You don't even need to know anything about Islam to know that it is wrong to enslave and rape women like ISIS are doing with the Yazidi women.
Nawaz has coined the phrase the 'Regressive Left', which he describes as a section of the Left wing of politics who "are abusing terms such as racism, bigotry and Islamophobia to shutdown debate".
"Islam is not a race and it is certainly not racist to scrutinise Islam just as it is not anti-Christian to scrutinise, critique and satirise Christianity.
"No idea should be above scrutiny, just as no people should be below dignity."
Nawaz said it is "absurd" to state that the likes of ISIS are not inspired by Islam, as some liberal thinkers on the Left attempt to claim.