There were lots of journalists waiting outside and it was obvious that I was one of the victims. I didn't have a chance to decide whether or not I wanted to speak to them because it didn't seem real. I was dazed and in shock. They were just all around me and then it all kicked in and the real questions began.

"How does it feel to be a Muslim?" - what was I, a lizard?

I didn't comprehend this at that at time, as the questions poured out but looking back I now realise who or what I was, to the press at least. I was the perfect demographic: a young British Muslim.

Over the next few days I was contacted by most of the world's major news companies from Sky to CNN to ARD German News. At first, I didn't really know what I was doing. I was so overwhelmed that I spoke to everyone and anyone.

I regret that now. I was an ordinary person in a state of shock so it's no real surprise that I said the first things that came into my head. Some of these things came across as very strong.

Panorama interviewed me for a couple of hours and showed the 20 seconds of footage where I said that Tony Blair should resign. I was held up as their angry Muslim blaming the government for what had happened. Maybe, you would have thought from the clip, I was even a terrorist sympathizer.

I appeared on GMTV the morning after the bombings and the presenter asked me four times, using slightly different wording, how I felt "as a Muslim" about the attacks. Apparently I would have some unique insight into some people I didn't know, who had a very different view of the world to me, just because we shared a religion.

It seemed to me that the presenter, on behalf of the British people, was holding me at least partly responsible for the attacks. It was like it was my fault and I should be guilty for being a Muslim and I didn't deserve to be treated like the other victims.

Over the following days, family and friends advised me against talking to the media. They saw that I was in danger of being turned into a celebrity victim and that this would make it much harder for me to recover from what I'd been through.

I followed this advice but the phone still kept ringing in the weeks and months after the bombings. By December, I was so emotionally drained that I left the country for a while.

I wanted to be free of the burden that seemed to be on my shoulders. I didn't want to be made to re-live the experience of 7/7 every time the phone rang.

As the news of who the bombers were came out, I become even more in demand. As a young Muslim who works in the third sector on projects with young people, I have a vaguely similar job to Mohammad Sidique Khan, one of the bombers.

To many people in the media, it seemed that this coincidence would mean that I would some-how know exactly what was going through Mohammad Sidique Khan's head when he decided to kill and injure innocent people.

I understand that for people working in the media, chasing the story is the top priority and people's emotions come second. I met with other survivors who told me that if you choose to talk to the media to begin with you could only blame yourself if you feel harassed by them.

They are probably right, but at the time when I decided to talk, I wasn't really in a state to weigh up the options and make a sensible decision. I wanted to try to help people understand what had happened and why.

I still do want to do that but not by trying to answer questions that I can't possibly know the answer to. I don't have a political agenda and I don't know any more about terrorism than anyone else, Muslim or otherwise.

Instead of asking "why did this happen to me?" or "why did the bombers do what they did?" I wanted to do something positive that might help to prevent it from happening again.

One way I've been trying to do this is by developing an idea for a youth project to bring young Muslims and non-Muslims together to talk about their identities and learn to understand each other better. Hopefully my company will start working on the project later this year.

Things are better now. The phone still rings but I'm not doing any more TV interviews, though. Not until I'm famous on my own behalf.