Bismallah al Rahman al Raheem. Brothers and sisters, Assalam alaikum - I first came to Pakistan seven years ago following the horrific events of 9/11 - I am sure every single one of you can remember that day very well. It was the dawn of a frightening new era - it was the time when George W Bush said: You are either with me or with the terrorists. Who here is with George W Bush now? Who here stands shoulder to shoulder with the President of the United States ? He might be gone from The White House soon, but his rotten legacies will live on. And one of those legacies is his never-ending War on Terror. His War on Terror gave birth to the cages of Cuba - to Guantanamo Bay where hundreds of our brothers were sold like slaves to the Americans. I wish this obscenity had happened somewhere else, but the stark reality is retired General Pervez Musharraf and his men got rich on the back of this vile trade - he even admitted it in his autobiography. How could Muslims sink so low as to sell their brothers like parcels of meat? Because of this an international organisation called Cage Prisoners was launched from London and its work initially focused on the torture and detention of those brothers held in Guantanamo , a boil on the face of humanity. I became one of the patrons of Cage Prisoners and tried to raise awareness to get justice for our brothers in Islam. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever believe that sisters would also be swept up in the War on Terror. Never did I ever in my darkest nightmares imagine they would be brutalised, raped and tortured ... but they have. I suppose we should not have been too surprised, after all it seems the US President is totally disinterested in the suffering of others, especially when it comes to Muslims. Muslim blood is cheap as far as the US military is concerned. The rivers of blood in Iraq and Afghanistan have now been swollen with the blood of innocent Pakistanis. How did we allow ourselves to sleepwalk into this outrageous state of affairs. But what still catches my breath is the disinterest expressed by brothers and sisters across the Muslim world to the plight of sisters ... and I am talking about all corners of the Muslim world, including here in Pakistan , a country I have grown to love and regard as my second home. I salute those dear sisters in Lal Masjid who were mocked and ridiculed for trying to close down a brothel - they were mocked and ridiculed for their piety and many of them were martyred as they fought for common decency. How did we allow that to happen? How did we sink so low? Newspaper columnists here in Pakistan sneered at their efforts and called their work the Talibanisation of Pakistan. Anywhere else in the world they would have been praised as feminists and as righteous individuals for trying to close down the sex industry which clearly exploits women. But it's not just the heroic sisters from Lal Masjid which brings me here today. Five years ago when Cage Prisoners first brought the mystery disappearance of Dr Aafia Siddiqui to the attention of the media no one listened? OK - five years ago few of us believed that the Bush Administration could really sanction the kidnapping of a mother and her three children. I know because I was one of those doubters but what changed for me was my own journey to Guantanamo earlier this year. For some bizarre reason the Americans agreed to give me and film-maker David Miller unprecedented access to the world's most notorious prison - and even more amazingly they let us out again. I am probably one of the few Muslims who flew half way across the world to get to Guantanamo without having to be shackled, shaved and abused. The experience as brief as it was left me shocked � in fact as I left the maximum security block at Camp Delta one of the young guards asked me how I felt. I told him I was speechless, lost for words. He said proudly: Yup, it's awesome isn't it?