All of these memories — from my childhood years in Iran, growing up in Germany, witnessing our challenges with integration and foreign policy — have led me to this conclusion: it is more than a moderate Islam that we need. We need a revolutionary Islam: an Islam compatible with modernity and individualism, an Islam that leaves behind collectivism, oppression and backwardness and instead endorses progress and finds itself at peace with itself and other world religions. I'm still very hopeful that the protests in Iran that began with the stolen election of 2009 will not only bring about the end of a barbaric regime, but also the beginning of an Islamic enlightenment. And it gives me hope that though I have lost the country of my childhood I will not lose another country again.