I want my Muslim extremists to be monsters, and Begg was not a monster. In fact, far from terrorizing me, he went out of his way to do the opposite. The debate had become heated, culminating in me launching a quite aggressive attack on the audience, and other members of the panel, for their failure to challenge a contributor who had sought to justify the murder of so-called apostates. Begg wanted to be sure I hadn’t felt intimated by the audience. I laughed his concern off. “Don’t worry, I don’t have a phobia of being around Muslims." I said. "I wish more people were like that," he responded.