Maajid Nawaz Quotes

Maajid Nawaz
Maajid Nawaz
British Activist
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Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again. Maajid Nawaz
Satire Think Our Definition Uncomfortable Feel Heads Make Offensive Scratch Again Then Us Meant
In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity. Maajid Nawaz
Dignity People Society Beneath No Idea Above Open Open Society Idea Just Scrutiny Should
Chance explorations on search engines do not 'accidentally' lead users to extremist websites. Maajid Nawaz
Websites Extremist Lead Accidentally Engines Users Search Search Engines Chance
Societies should be judged by how they treat the weakest among them. Maajid Nawaz
Treat Weakest Judged How Them Should Among Societies
I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers. Maajid Nawaz
Angry Young Think Teenagers Would Leaders Encourage Order Working Communities Start
Before someone can change his ideas, he has to open his heart. Maajid Nawaz
Change Heart Before Someone Open He Ideas His
Dogma not only blinds its protagonist, but it muzzles all other opposition. Maajid Nawaz
Other Only Protagonist Blinds Dogma Opposition
Increased sympathy for an Islamist cause, lack of integration, and the absence of acceptance of Muslims into British society makes it harder for Muslims to challenge Islamism and tough for non-Muslims to understand it. Maajid Nawaz
Acceptance Cause Challenge Tough Society Increased Sympathy Muslims Absence Makes Understand Integration Lack Harder British
I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became. Maajid Nawaz
Islam Say About More Became Learnt Tolerant Now
Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization. Maajid Nawaz
Benefits Globalization Xenophobic Ironically Utilizing
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. Maajid Nawaz
Terrorism Culture Democratic Without Advocating Equivalent Movements Social Across Social Movements Grassroots Al-Qaeda Societies
The only way we can challenge Islamism is to engage with one another. We need to make it as abhorrent as racism has become today. Only then will we stem the tide of angry young Muslims who turn to hate. Maajid Nawaz
Today Angry Racism Hate Challenge Will Become Young Way Muslims Abhorrent Only Stem Tide Make Another Turn Then Engage Who Need
I really didn't grow up religious, and I didn't grow up acknowledging my Muslim identity. For me, I was a British Pakistani. Maajid Nawaz
Me Muslim Religious Identity Up Acknowledging Really Grow Grow Up Pakistani British
Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change. Maajid Nawaz
Change Black Islam Nation Embraced Towards Prior Hip-Hop His Began Very Nationalist Movements Form Moving Much
I was in prison with pretty much the who's who of the jihadist and Islamist scene of Egypt at the time, and Egypt was the cradle of Islamism for the world - it's where it began and where jihadism began as well. Maajid Nawaz
Time World Prison Pretty Scene Well Began Cradle Egypt Where Much Who
Expressing myself through language was always something that I had had to learn to do more so than others. Maajid Nawaz
Myself Language Others Something More Through Had Learn Always Than Expressing
What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism. Maajid Nawaz
Thinking Extremist We Cannot Segregation Between Exclusion Non-Violent Deny Cannot Association
One of the problems we're facing is, in my view, that there are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. Maajid Nawaz
Culture Problems One Of The Problems Facing Democratic Advocating Movements Social Across View Social Movements Grassroots Societies
Neoconservatism had the philosophy that you go in with a supply-led approach to impose democratic values from the top down. Whereas Islamists and far-right organizations, for decades, have been building demand for their ideology on the grassroots. Maajid Nawaz
You Values Ideology Building Down Approach Philosophy Top Had Demand Democratic Islamists Go Impose Been Decades Whereas Organizations Grassroots
Islam will be what Muslims make of it. And it is the sum total of the interpretation that Muslims give to it. Maajid Nawaz
Will Islam Interpretation Sum Sum Total Muslims Total Give Make
I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace. Maajid Nawaz
War Religion Me Confidence Peace Perspective Islam Subscribe Say Muslims Tells Something Only Majority Because Text Inherent Level
I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate. Maajid Nawaz
Myself Good News Character Man Age Good News Free Radical Group Joined Since Because Around Still Passionate Quite Turned Then
Hizb ut-Tahrir spearheaded the radicalization of the 1990s and cultivated an atmosphere of anger. Maajid Nawaz
Anger Atmosphere Cultivated
I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology. Maajid Nawaz
Religion Ideology Lost Say
Muslim communities themselves, as they expect mainstream society to stand down racists, must do more to also stand down the Islamist extremists. Maajid Nawaz
Down Society Extremists Muslim Must More Mainstream Also Expect Themselves Racists Stand Communities
The University of Westminster is well known for being a hotbed of extremist activity. Maajid Nawaz
Extremist Well Well Known Known Westminster Being Activity University
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