I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
MAAJID NAWAZIronically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.
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Preying on the grievances of disaffected young men is the bedrock of Islamism.
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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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Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.
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I am everything I am today, because of my past.
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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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In prison I had the opportunity to debate and discuss people that had subscribed to all forms of Islamism.
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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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It’s not always the case that Muslims have been theocrats.
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We have to render Islamist extremism as unattractive as communism has become today.
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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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If we look at Abdel Nasser in Egypt as an Arab leader, he was secular.
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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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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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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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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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