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If we look at Abdel Nasser in Egypt as an Arab leader, he was secular.

Maajid Nawaz

If we look at Abdel Nasser in Egypt as an Arab leader, he was secular.
MAAJID NAWAZ

Appearance Leadership Secularism Sight
I’m yet to discover any form of theocracy that isn’t homophobic, that isn’t bigoted to the out group.
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Discover Group Myself
I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
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Learning Myself Tolerance
When I returned to the United Kingdom, I found that I could no longer justify Islamist extremism as the antidote.
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Islam Justice Myself Return
Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.
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Benefit Globalization Iron Nation
Does freedom of speech give the right to offend?
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Freedom Offend Right Voice
Within our lifetime, we can remember a time when Islamism wasn’t the dominant form of discourse or the aim should be to minimise the absolutists within any religious community and contain them.
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Community Dominant Life Myself Religious Remember Time
No form of theocracy, whether it’s manifested in a violent or non-violent form, is ever good for civilisation, and we have to challenge it in civil society as well as we would challenge Christian-based theocracy, or any other form of bigotry.
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Challenge Civilization Discrimination Goodness Manifestation Violence
We have to render Islamist extremism as unattractive as communism has become today.
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Attractive Communism Day Islam
In prison I had the opportunity to debate and discuss people that had subscribed to all forms of Islamism.
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Discussion Form Islam Opportunity Prison
Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
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Faith Islam Politics Society Version
No idea is above scrutiny. No idea whatsoever. To criticize, to scrutinize and to satirize my own religion Islam is not Islamophobia.
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Criticism Ideas Islam Ourselves Religion
I am everything I am today, because of my past.
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Myself Past
Once you subscribe to an ideological dogma as a solution to certain grievances, it then frames your mindset.
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Frame Grievance Ideology Mindset Subscribe Yourself
The Bosnian Genocide was something that triggered my consciousness and led to an awakening politically for me.
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Awake Myself Politics Trigger
After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.
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Death Islam Myself Preparation Search Soul

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