Quotes by Maajid Nawaz - Page 3

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 / Political Activist
Islam
Embraced
Movements
Nationalist
Prior
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As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.
Maajid Nawaz / Political Activist
Bias
Confirmation
Extremism
Ignorance
Online
Seeking
Rise
Increases
Prejudices
Succumb
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I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.
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Assassins
Egypt
Former
Prison
Sentences
Executed
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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 / Political Activist
Sympathy
Absence
Acceptance
British
Harder
Integration
Tough
Cause
Challenge
Increased
Muslims
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If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.
Maajid Nawaz / Political Activist
Free Speech
Heretic
Hesitation
Innovation
Liberalism
Offense
Orthodox
Speech
Stagnation
Bound
Group
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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 / Political Activist
Hateful
Islamists
Logic
Begins
Breaking
Cliches
Feed
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'Muslim' is not a political party. 'Muslim' is not a single culture. Muslims go to war with each other. There are more Muslims in India, Russia and China than in most Muslim-majority nations. 'Muslim' is not a homogenous entity.
Maajid Nawaz / Political Activist
War
China
Entity
Nations
Party
Russia
Single
Each
Muslim
Muslims
Political Party
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The first point of contact for radicalisation is almost always a personal one. Prisons and universities, for example, tend to be easily and regularly infiltrated by radical groups, who use them as forums to propagate their ideas.
Maajid Nawaz / Political Activist
Contact
Groups
For Example
Forum
Prisons
Regularly
Universities
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Broader social concerns within Muslim communities, such as discrimination, integration or socio-economic disadvantages, should be treated distinctively and not as part of counterterrorism agenda, which has been counter-productive.
Maajid Nawaz / Political Activist
Disadvantages
Integration
Broader
Communities
Concerns
Counterterrorism
Socio-Economic
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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 / Political Activist
Bloody
Certainty
Committed
Fascism
Organize
Salvation
Worldly
Descend
Arrive
Enforce
Power Way Will
Invariably
Seek
Totalitarian
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Imams must ridicule Caliphate fantasies. Exchange programmes between Muslim-only schools and non-Muslim-majority schools should be initiated. Community-based debates around these themes must no longer be shut down from fear of offence.
Maajid Nawaz / Political Activist
Offence
Programmes
Ridicule
Community-Based
Exchange
Debates
Fantasies
Initiated
Longer
Schools
Shut
Themes
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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 / Political Activist
Confidence
Inherent
Islam
Majority
Perspective
Muslims
Subscribe
Text
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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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Challenges
Christian
Violent
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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.
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Decades
Demand
Grassroots
Ideology
Islamists
Organizations
Impose
Whereas
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Not all Muslims wish to express themselves in public through a communal religious identity. Identities are multiple, and some may wish to speak instead just as citizens in their professional capacity, through their political party, or their neighborhood body.
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Capacity
Citizens
Multiple
Neighborhood
Party
Religious
Wish
Communal
Express
Identities
Instead
Muslims
Political Party
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By the age of 24, I found myself convicted in prison in Egypt, being blacklisted from three countries in the world for attempting to overthrow their governments, being subjected to torture in Egyptian jails, and sentenced to five years as a prisoner of conscience.
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Attempting
Conscience
Egypt
Prisoner
Torture
Convicted
Governments
Jails
Overthrow
Sentenced
Subjected
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I’m a Muslim, we come from a Muslim community and we are very critical of western or American foreign policy. So if I’ve got the right and if other Muslims have got the right to criticize… likewise everyone else has also got the right to criticize everything else.
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Community
Criticize
Foreign Policy
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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 / Political Activist
Interacting
Islamic
Meaningful
Male
Entirely
Homes
Meaningful Way
Mosque
Visited
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I had the assassins of the former president of Egypt, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood was with me in prison, the leaders of my own former group Hizb ut-Tahrir were with me in prison and so by the time I was released at the age of 28, I wasn't the man who went in at 24.
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Men
Egypt
Leader
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I'm a progressive. What I find is that a subsection within the left that instead of standing for consistency in progressive values, so feminism as applied to mainstream society, as well as within minority communities, gay rights to mainstream society as well as within minority communities.
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Gay
Mainstream Society
Rights
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There was a genocide unfolding against Bosnian Muslims and we, in the United Kingdom, were incredibly angered - a teenager at the time, 15 years old, so my young teenage mind processed that in a way typical to the very passionate and angry and black-and-white way that teenagers often can do.
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Black And White
Teenage
Years
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In today's Britain, the weakest among us are often assumed to be minority communities. In fact, the weakest are those minorities-within-minorities for whom the legal right to exit from their communities' constraints amounts to nothing before the enforcement of cultural and religious shaming.
Maajid Nawaz / Political Activist
Legal
Britain
Constraints
Enforcement
Exit
Assumed
Communities
Cultural
Legal Right
Minority
Weakest
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I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.
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Inquiring
Maturity
Recruitment
Ripe
Ferment
Fostered
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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 / Political Activist
Contrary
Faces
Hospitals
Islam
Unreasonable
Airport
Banks
Cover
Identify
Namely
Teachings
The One Thing
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I was filled with hate and anger. But during my trial, something decisive happened: Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and it was an unbelievable feeling to know that there is someone fighting for you on the outside. Amnesty's 'soft' approach made me seriously consider alternatives to revenge.
Maajid Nawaz / Political Activist
Anger
Adopted
Alternatives
Amnesty
Conscience
Filled
Prisoner
Revenge
Unbelievable
Decisive
Trial
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If we are true small 'l' liberals, it's our job to seek out feminist Muslims, ex-Muslims, liberal Muslims, dissenting voices within Muslim communities, gay Muslims - we should promote those voices and in doing so, we demonstrate Islam is not a monolith, Muslims are not homogenous, and that Muslims are truly internally diverse.
Maajid Nawaz / Political Activist
Jobs
Gay
Voice
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