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Maajid Nawaz

British Activist

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I was born and raised in Essex, just outside London, to a financially comfortable, well-educated Pakistani family. Maajid Nawaz

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I realised that the idea of enforcing sharia is not consistent with Islam as it's been practised from the beginning. In other words, Islam has always been secular, and I had been totally ignorant of the fact. Maajid Nawaz

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In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance. Maajid Nawaz

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There were people who had sampled my voice from speeches when I was an Islamist and made them the chorus of pro-Islamist rap songs who then began talking about me as an apostate. Maajid Nawaz

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Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society. Maajid Nawaz

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Having our fundamental assumptions about life challenged is never a comfortable thing. Maajid Nawaz

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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance. Maajid Nawaz

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The only certainty we have is that those who are certain of a way to arrive at worldly salvation, are committed enough to organize around this, and seek power to enforce it, will invariably descend into a bloody totalitarian fascism. Maajid Nawaz

Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face. Maajid Nawaz

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For my own part, once I became a teenager, I experienced severe and violent racism. Maajid Nawaz

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De-radicalisation begins by breaking down the logic which once seemed unassailable and rethinking what you are fighting for and why. That is hard to do when Islamists and Islamophobes feed off each other's hateful cliches. Maajid Nawaz

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As I went between the Islamic Society in my college and university, the mosque, the halal takeaway, and visited the homes of my male Muslim friends, it was entirely possible for me to get through my day without interacting in any meaningful way with a single non-Muslim. Maajid Nawaz

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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk. Maajid Nawaz

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The fact is that there is a serious problem of extremism with minority groups within Muslim communities. Maajid Nawaz

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The best revolutions are unplanned, and the most democratic are leaderless. Maajid Nawaz

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