The Bosnian Genocide was something that triggered my consciousness and led to an awakening politically for me.
MAAJID NAWAZIf we look at Abdel Nasser in Egypt as an Arab leader, he was secular.
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I believe that preventing radicalisation is far more efficient than de-radicalisation, meaning stopping someone joining is a lot easier than trying to pull someone out once they’ve joined.
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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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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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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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It’s not always the case that Muslims have been theocrats.
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Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.
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Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and that led to my – it touched me in a way that really led to me opening up my heart, I’ve called it the re-humanisation process.
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We have to render Islamist extremism as unattractive as communism has become today.
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Once you subscribe to an ideological dogma as a solution to certain grievances, it then frames your mindset.
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When I returned to the United Kingdom, I found that I could no longer justify Islamist extremism as the antidote.
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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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In prison I had the opportunity to debate and discuss people that had subscribed to all forms of Islamism.
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Preying on the grievances of disaffected young men is the bedrock of Islamism.
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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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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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