Tayyaba Khan stands in front of a class of schoolgirls, not dissimilar to her, and explains what life’s been like growing up Muslim in a post-9/11 world. Those girls, bombarded online with messages on religion, are often too petrified to engage in religious discourse. She hopes opening up the dialogue can change that hesitancy. “That’s the aggressive nature of conversation you see online now . It’s not appropriate to dehumanise them, there’s no room for good conversation to take place to see different perspectives. It’s all about shutting down the conversation,” Khan, chief executive of the Khadija Leadership Network, says.