Maajid Nawaz Quotes
Top 81 wise famous quotes and sayings by Maajid Nawaz
Maajid Nawaz Famous Quotes & Sayings
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But we're also taught that you're not a martyr if you blow yourself up in a marketplace, because you're killing civilians and other Muslims.
America did not invade Iraq because Iraqis are Muslims. Oil, money, economic interests. Who knows? But it was not because Iraqis are Muslims.
What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.
I really didn't grow up religious, and I didn't grow up acknowledging my Muslim identity. For me, I was a British Pakistani.
The truth is that just as the 'West' is not a homogenous entity with one view on foreign and domestic policy, nor are Muslims.
Satire has been a sanctuary historically monopolized by progressives, originally used as a discreet tool against Western religious fundamentalism.
The rise of ISIS in Iraq is a wider threat to the stability of the Middle East and the West than many realise.
Once you subscribe to an ideological dogma as a solution to certain grievances, it then frames your mindset.
I was imprisoned in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks, when Egypt's state security was rounding people up in unprecedented numbers.
Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.
Rather than allowing jihadists to shut down debate, it must proliferate so much that they simply cannot kill us all.
The only way that we can win over potential jihadists to liberal democracy is by winning the battle of ideas.
No idea is above scrutiny. No idea whatsoever. To criticize, to scrutinize and to satirize my own religion [Islam] is not Islamophobia.
I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
Expressing myself through language was always something that I had had to learn to do more so than others.
But because of the religious element in our message, and the desire of the authorities not to offend our religious
Islam will be what Muslims make of it. And it is the sum total of the interpretation that Muslims give to it.
I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria.
Any item of clothing that covers the face and makes it impossible to identify individuals is open to abuse.
Like so many nice people who seek power, I wanted to force everyone else to be nice. It's called totalitarianism.
The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist.
To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.
My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the legal choices they make. My fight is for rights.
I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.
In the United Kingdom, we need to promote an inclusive British identity that involves and empowers people from all ethnic and faith backgrounds.
I'm yet to discover any form of theocracy that isn't homophobic, that isn't bigoted to the out group.
Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
The Bosnian Genocide was something that triggered my consciousness and led to an awakening politically for me.
The British and French governments have taken a strong stance against 'extremist content' online when addressing their approach to tackling extremism.
The truth is, 'Charlie Hebdo' is not a racist magazine. Rather, it is a campaigning anti-racist left-wing magazine.
We cannot hope to effectively counter extremism if we just focus on schools, universities and prisons: we need to take this online as well.
The cheeky ideal I am calling for is that Muslims should be viewed as equal citizens, nothing more and nothing less.
Islamism. It's an ideology. People are seeking to bring it about, but they differ in their approach.
I was born and raised in Essex, just outside London, to a financially comfortable, well-educated Pakistani family.
Non-violent extremism is essentially the increase of intolerant and bigoted demands made by groups seeking to dominate society.
In prison I had the opportunity to debate and discuss people that had subscribed to all forms of Islamism.
During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.
Muslim communities themselves, as they expect mainstream society to stand down racists, must do more to also stand down the Islamist extremists.
To suggest that a Muslim cannot think for himself sounds to me very much like an incident of anti-Muslim bigotry.
When I returned to the United Kingdom, I found that I could no longer justify Islamist extremism as the antidote.
Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
I have founded Khudi, in Pakistan, a youth movement which tries to counter extremist ideology through healthy discussion and debate.
After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.
The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.