Having our fundamental assumptions about life challenged is never a comfortable thing.

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

In Bosnia, the case was there were white, blond-haired, blue-eyed Muslims who were being slaughtered and identified as Muslims. That really touched me.

America did not invade Iraq because Iraqis are Muslims. Oil, money, economic interests. Who knows? But it was not because Iraqis are Muslims.

My identity comprises of more than just my faith. I am a proud Muslim, but I am also a liberal, a Briton, a Pakistani, a Londoner, a father, a product of the globalised world who speaks English, Arabic and Urdu.

Societies should be judged by how they treat the weakest among them.

Language that is designed to dehumanize has consequences.

Muslim communities themselves, as they expect mainstream society to stand down racists, must do more to also stand down the Islamist extremists.

If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.

Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.

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

In the end, everyone just deserves the right to be their authentic selves, just be who they are.

Having such a supportive family has really shaped the person that I am today.

I always say I want to leave this world in a better state than when I arrived, and I continue to live by that message. So I'm going to do what I can to make the world a better place but also just make sure that I'm happy as well.

Just like everyone else, I'm not perfect; I go through challenges as well.

I'd like to think I'm funny.

I think we should have unisex bathrooms.

I definitely secretly dream of being a mermaid.

I look at people for their souls, and I can see myself falling in love with anyone after getting to know them and developing a relationship.

If someone is judging you without knowing the content of your character, don't listen to them.

On every single picture on my Instagram page, you'll find a negative comment. My supporters will normally stand up to that hateful person, and then it will become a big argument, and it's just a lot. I try to tell myself not to listen to the haters, and I try not to read the comments because it's not worth it.

I know, for me, when I was depressed, I didn't want to talk to my friends at all when I was depressed. If they tried to help me, I would kind of back away from them.

I've always loved mermaids!

I want it to be that transgender is normal. Let us live our lives. Let us be happy. The world will be a better place when we have that freedom. I think I'm going to be alive to see it.