Over the last few decades, the term ‘radicalisation’ has become so politicised and laden with Islamophobic ideas that it can be hard to unpack what it actually means. Radicalisation is “the action or process of causing someone to adopt radical positions on political or social issues”. To me, this sounds like a process that many of us go through as the adult world opens our eyes to the manifold inequalities in the systems that govern us. Yet for many, ‘radical’ simply means any iteration of Islam that isn’t sanitised for the white gaze; to be ‘radical’ as a Muslim means being dangerous, extreme…