When she was 15 years old, in front of her entire school, Aliyah Saleem was expelled from Jamia al-Hudaa residential college for possessing a disposable camera, a crime of “narcissism”. This public humiliation was the climax of her five stormy years at the Muslim girls boarding school in the East Midlands, during which she fought its narrow Islamic curriculum and sharia-inspired rules.

Here she was taught that men are permitted to beat their wives, and that some scholars believe the death sentence is appropriate for gay men and that Jews and Christians make God angry. She learnt no geography, British history, art, music or sports. Pages on reproduction and evolution in science textbooks were removed or crossed out. Left to salvage her education, Saleem resolved