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Muslim women can save the world from ISIS.
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Save The World
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Censorship in all its forms must be challenged.
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Censorship
Challenged
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Speech, not violence, is how we will bridge the divides between us.
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Divides
Bridge
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We need a broader perspective on what counter-radicalisation means.
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Broader
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People do the most remarkable things in the most difficult of circumstances.
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Circumstances
Remarkable
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Old, deeply engrained systems take time to change, but we can't leave it to time.
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Systems
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Music, performance, and a woman is very rarely accepted within Muslim communities.
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Accepted
Rarely
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Freedom of expression is essential for feminists and dissidents in the Muslim world.
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Freedom Of Expression
Muslim World
Feminists
Muslim
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As a girl, I abandoned a promising singing career due to violent harassment by Islamists.
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Abandoned
Harassment
Islamists
Due
Promising
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Attacking racism and discrimination is a very important way to work against radicalisation.
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Attacking
Discrimination
Racism
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'Honour'-based violence is a form of domestic violence. Domestic violence is a broad category.
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Category
Broad
Domestic
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We ignore the similarities between the religious extremism and ethno-nationalism at our peril.
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Extremism
Ignore
Similarities
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The self-proclaimed Islamic State cannot tolerate diversity, which is why we must celebrate it.
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Celebrate
Islamic
Tolerate
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I come from a Muslim family. The label 'Muslim' is one aspect of me, but it's not the only part of me.
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Aspect
Label
Muslim
One Aspect
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The problem with Muslim women is less that we cannot speak the language, but that no one listens to us.
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Listens
The Problem With
We Cannot
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The Trump phenomenon shows us how much fear of Muslims there is out there and how easily it can be exploited.
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Phenomenon
Exploited
Muslims
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I'm a woman of colour. I am the daughter of immigrants. I am a Muslim. I am a feminist. I am a lefty liberal.
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Colour
Immigrants
Lefty
Liberal
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Like Theresa May, I regularly find myself infuriated by the rantings of Anjem Choudary and other hate preachers.
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Theresa
Preachers
Regularly
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Self-expression should not be a challenge that demands extraordinary talent but should be a right accessible to all.
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Extraordinary
Self Expression
Talent
Accessible
Challenge
Demands
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If our values are worth anything, we should stand up for them and live by them, both within Britain and across the world.
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Britain
Stand Up
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There is no psychiatric pattern which can predict who becomes an extremist - but they are all frustrated with their reality.
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Extremist
Frustrated
Psychiatric
Predict
Pattern
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We cannot leave vulnerable young men open to the exploitation of extremists, both for our own security and their own wellbeing.
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Exploitation
Wellbeing
Extremists
We Cannot
Young Men
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Britain has supported theocrats and dictators as long as it served British business interests, whether under Tory or Labour rule.
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Britain
Labour
Dictators
Served
Supported
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If we value human rights, they should be at the core of the project against violent extremism, and women a key part of our imagined future.
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Extremism
Human Rights
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Having more than one legal system running is not a sign of a healthy or inclusive society. It is just one less thing that people have in common.
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Legal
Just One
Legal System
Society People More
Inclusive
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Some women facing 'honour' crimes require relocation far outside the reaches of their extended families and changes of identity to escape detection.
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Detection
Honour
Crimes
Escape
Extended
Facing
Require
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Women's empowerment, whether through legal, financial, or cultural routes, will tend to increase their agency and their ability to take part in activism.
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Legal
Activism
Agency
Empowerment
Routes
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Freedom of speech is a human right and the foundation upon which democracy is built. Any restriction of freedom of speech is a restriction upon democracy.
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Freedom
Built
Democracy
Foundation
Restriction
Speech
Any
Freedom Democracy Freedom Of Speech
Human
Human Right
Right
Which
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Ability to speak the majority language is not just important for inclusion; it is important for minorities to be able to claim their rights and entitlements.
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Entitlement
Inclusion
Minorities
Claim
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Political and economic insecurity inevitably translates into insecurity in people's everyday lives, from lack of access to welfare to the increasing lack of security in the workplace.
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Everyday
Insecurity
Welfare
Workplace
Everyday Lives
Increasing
Inevitably
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Within a life that seems uncomfortably scripted by family and community pressures, hyper-religiosity can provide a way to break with parental expectations and flee from parental control.
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Parental
Life Family Community
Flee
Scripted
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Extremism is a complicated issue, but without addressing how it appeals to men and boys, we may be missing an important motivation and a way to address the problems in our towns and cities.
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Appeals
Extremism
Missing
Towns
Addressing
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Many Muslim parents are authoritarian, which leaves young men and women with limited spaces to express themselves. Self-expression and autonomy are regarded as symptoms of 'Westernisation.'
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Autonomy
Men And Women
Self Expression
Symptoms
Authoritarian
Leaves
Women Men Parents
Regarded
Spaces
Young Men
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Our media provides a continuing message that for men, heroism is defined through association with control, independence, and the ability to commit violence, from superheroes to crime dramas.
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Independence
Association
Commit
Continuing
Crime
Defined
Heroism
Media
Dramas
Provides
Superheroes
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I have watched the spread of violent extremism and jihadism across Europe and the U.K. with dismay, particularly given my history of experiencing threats, abuse, and harassment by Muslim fanatics.
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Abuse
Dismay
Extremism
Fanatics
Harassment
Spread
Experiencing
Muslim
Threats
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As someone who grew up between two cultures, I have been fascinated with the question of why men and women with similar backgrounds to mine were drawn towards radical messages of hate and violence.
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Backgrounds
Fascinated
Men And Women
Messages
Men Women Hate
Cultures
Drawn
Women Men Hate
Similar
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Our freedoms are shared freedoms: they are bound up in each other. The ability to confront oppression in the guise of religion is linked to our ability to worship as we choose: both are acts of expression.
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Guise
Linked
Oppression
Worship
Acts
Bound
Confront
Freedoms
Shared
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Our society constantly promotes role models for masculinity, from superheroes to politicians, where the concept of being a 'man' is based in their ability to be tough, dominant - and even violent when required.
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Dominant
Masculinity
Models
Role Models
Being A Man
Concept
Politicians
Required
Superheroes
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Living through the intersections of cultural diversity has given me an intimate understanding of the dynamics of living between the dimensions of East and West, traditional and modern, and political and spiritual.
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Cultural Diversity
Dimensions
Diversity
Dynamics
East
Intimate
Spiritual
Traditional
Understanding
West
Cultural
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Women with education, skills, and independent sources of income are more able to withstand the pressures of the patriarchal family and more able to express their opinions and to move freely within their communities.
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Education
Income
Independent
Skills
Within
Communities
Express
Freely
Opinions
Patriarchal
Pressures
Sources
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People at risk of 'honour'-based violence require long-term support, often years past the closure of a case, for continuing culturally-sensitive psychological support and the development of long-term protection plans.
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Closure
Continuing
Long Term
Plans
Protection
Psychological
Require
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Jihadis want to watch the world burn, to bring everything crashing down, to destroy the establishment and rebuild it after their own pitiless vision. This misguided utopianism is what makes them such effective bogeymen.
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Establishment
Misguided
Burn
Crashing
Destroy
Effective
Rebuild
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A hedonistic lifestyle contrary to all the rules and expectations of Islam is not an unusual precursor to radicalisation: in fact, some young radicals see joining in the jihad as a way of achieving redemption for past sins.
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Contrary
Hedonistic
Islam
Jihad
Joining
Lifestyle
Precursor
Redemption
Unusual
Rules
Achieving
In Fact
Radicals
Sins
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Some Muslim children, both male and female, have little choice in who to marry, what to study, what their careers will be, and who they can socialise with. Their lives are constrained under the expectations of family 'honour.'
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Careers
Female
Honour
Study
Male
Choice
Constrained
Marry
Muslim
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Left to the mercies of their communities, Muslim women and children remain in abusive households and face losing their financial security over issues like child maintenance and inheritance through the judgments of 'sharia' courts.
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Financial
Financial Security
Inheritance
Left
Losing
Maintenance
Security
Child
Face
Communities
Courts
Households
Judgments
Mercies
Muslim
Remain
Women And Children
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We need more courageous individuals who will defy the structures of power, whether political, economic, or intimate, but we also need it to be safe for people to feel their power and to be able to express their ideas and imagine without fear.
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Courageous
Intimate
Defy
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I'm just trying to stretch the public space wider and make it more open so that a wider variety of people and faces and stories and perspectives and also expertise can come through. So everything that I do rests on that, trying to support on other voices.
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Expertise
Faces
Variety
Perspectives
Rests
Stretch
Voices
Wider
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No one is born a terrorist, but the route to become one is surprisingly easy. We need to listen to those who have been there, and those who have made their way back, if we want to stop others from taking their first steps down this same path into darkness.
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Path
Steps
Terrorist
Route
Surprisingly
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Extremist movements are driven by their inability to tolerate the basic human fact of pluralism. They refuse to accept the natural cultural and religious diversity of our world, seeking to impose their own beliefs and behaviours as a universal pattern for humanity.
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Driven
Extremist
Inability
Our World
Pluralism
Refuse
Seeking
Tolerate
Beliefs
Impose
Movements
Pattern
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We must defend democracy using its own mechanisms, through explaining and exemplifying its merits rather than through the heavy-handed and arbitrary silencing of its critics. This is how we will build a sustainable alternative to the contorted worldview of extremists.
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Arbitrary
Critics
Explaining
Silencing
Worldview
Alternative
Defend
Sustainable
Extremists
Heavy-Handed
Mechanisms
Merits
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