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.
MAAJID NAWAZWithin 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.
More Maajid Nawaz Quotes
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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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If we look at Abdel Nasser in Egypt as an Arab leader, he was secular.
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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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Does freedom of speech give the right to offend?
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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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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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When I returned to the United Kingdom, I found that I could no longer justify Islamist extremism as the antidote.
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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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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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The Bosnian Genocide was something that triggered my consciousness and led to an awakening politically for me.
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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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We have to render Islamist extremism as unattractive as communism has become today.
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