Maajid Nawaz
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Maajid Usman Nawaz is a British activist and former radio presenter. He was the founding chairman of the think tank Quilliam. Until January 2022, he was the host of an LBC radio show on Saturdays and Sundays.
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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.
'I watched a man stabbed in a London street - and felt nothing' (25 May, 2013)
There is a disproportionate number of convicted terrorists who've come from a conversion background
Woolwich murder sparks anti-Muslim backlash BBC News (25 May 2013)
There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies.
A global culture to fight extremism - Maajid Nawaz | TED-Ed (July 2011)
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About this person
Maajid Usman Nawaz is a British activist and former radio presenter. He was the founding chairman of the think tank Quilliam. Until January 2022, he was the host of an LBC radio show on Saturdays and Sundays. Born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, to a British Pakistani family, Nawaz is a former member of the Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir. His membership led to his December 2001 arrest in Egypt, where he remained imprisoned until 2006. While there, he read books about human rights and made contact with Amnesty International who adopted him as a prisoner of conscience. He left Hizb-ut-Tahrir in 2007, renounced his Islamist past, and called for a secular Islam. Later, Nawaz co-founded Quilliam with former Islamists, including Ed Husain.
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