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Many respondents specifically cited the works of Richard Dawkins and the late Christopher Hitchens and indicated that these two writers had a momentous impact on their thinking.

In exposing themselves to critiques of Islam respondents were able to revisit classical Islamic sources with a new attitude of hermeneutic scepticism. For Nabilah, it was reading Hirsi Ali's writings which provoked her to think more critically about Islam, returning to the classical texts with her 'eyes open'.