Dr Salman Sayyid an esteemed university lecturer with special interest in racism, postcolonalism, critical theory and “political Islam’. He has written a number of articles for journals and books surrounding these issues.

During the discussion Salman Sayyid spoke on ‘Democracy, Diversity and ‘De-radicalization” where he described the hypocrisy of the West who are so concerned with implementing democracy abroad when they should be worried about the practice of it at home. He also criticised the PREVENT strategy and described it as limiting democracy.