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Maajid Nawaz

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
If we look at Abdel Nasser in Egypt as an Arab leader, he was secular.
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Appearance Leadership Secularism Sight
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
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
I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
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Learning Myself Tolerance
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Benefit Globalization Iron Nation
Preying on the grievances of disaffected young men is the bedrock of Islamism.
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Bed Grief Islam Man Prey Young
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
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
We have to render Islamist extremism as unattractive as communism has become today.
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Attractive Communism Day Islam
There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. There is no equivalent of Al-Qaeda without the terrorism.
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Global Movement Religion Terrorism Youth
It’s not always the case that Muslims have been theocrats.
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Islam Job Profession Religion
Does freedom of speech give the right to offend?
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Freedom Offend Right Voice
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
I am everything I am today, because of my past.
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Myself Past
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

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