In early 2015 Al-Husseini has made several appearances on current affairs programmes on French television and has had an opinion piece ( on the need to reform Islam ) published on the website of French daily newspaper Le Monde . He was also the subject of a four-page piece in the national French news magazine Marianne . In January he published , with Editions Grasset , an autobiography about how he came to reject Islam through his studies of Islamic literature and history and he recounts his blogging , his arrest ( alleging that he was tortured in prison ) and subsequent flight to France . In his media appearances and book he makes calls in defence of the French principles of secularism and states his belief that there must be more debate on what he considers to be the violent content of parts of the Islamic texts , especially in the wake of the massacres at Charlie Hebdo magazine and the Jewish Hyper Casher supermarket in Paris in early 2015
massacres at Charlie Hebdo magazine
Charlie Hebdo shooting
Waleed Al-Husseini