Maajid Nawaz Quotes
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What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.
— Maajid Nawaz
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
The truth is that just as the 'West' is not a homogenous entity with one view on foreign and domestic policy, nor are Muslims.
— Maajid Nawaz
Language that is designed to dehumanize has consequences.
— Maajid Nawaz
The rise of ISIS in Iraq is a wider threat to the stability of the Middle East and the West than many realise.
— Maajid Nawaz
My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.
— Maajid Nawaz
Once you subscribe to an ideological dogma as a solution to certain grievances, it then frames your mindset.
— Maajid Nawaz
No idea is above scrutiny and no people are beneath dignity.
— Maajid Nawaz
Does freedom of speech give the right to offend?
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My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner.
— Maajid Nawaz
Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.
— Maajid Nawaz
All my friends were non-Muslims. I actually knew very little about Islam - like, very little.
— Maajid Nawaz
Rather than allowing jihadists to shut down debate, it must proliferate so much that they simply cannot kill us all.
— Maajid Nawaz
The only way that we can win over potential jihadists to liberal democracy is by winning the battle of ideas.
— Maajid Nawaz
No idea is above scrutiny. No idea whatsoever. To criticize, to scrutinize and to satirize my own religion [Islam] is not Islamophobia.
— Maajid Nawaz
Quilliam will remain a priority for me because its values shape my beliefs and outlook.
— Maajid Nawaz
I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
— Maajid Nawaz
Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
— Maajid Nawaz
Expressing myself through language was always something that I had had to learn to do more so than others.
— Maajid Nawaz
The University of Westminster is well known for being a hotbed of extremist activity.
— Maajid Nawaz
But because of the religious element in our message, and the desire of the authorities not to offend our religious
— Maajid Nawaz
Islam will be what Muslims make of it. And it is the sum total of the interpretation that Muslims give to it.
— Maajid Nawaz
I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria.
— Maajid Nawaz
I am everything I am today, because of my past.
— Maajid Nawaz
Any item of clothing that covers the face and makes it impossible to identify individuals is open to abuse.
— Maajid Nawaz
In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.
— Maajid Nawaz
Like so many nice people who seek power, I wanted to force everyone else to be nice. It's called totalitarianism.
— Maajid Nawaz
I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.
— Maajid Nawaz
Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.
— Maajid Nawaz
I'm yet to discover any form of theocracy that isn't homophobic, that isn't bigoted to the out group.
— Maajid Nawaz
I used to MC a bit when I was young - 14 or 15 years old.
— Maajid Nawaz
Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
— Maajid Nawaz
The Bosnian Genocide was something that triggered my consciousness and led to an awakening politically for me.
— Maajid Nawaz
The truth is, 'Charlie Hebdo' is not a racist magazine. Rather, it is a campaigning anti-racist left-wing magazine.
— Maajid Nawaz
Chance explorations on search engines do not 'accidentally' lead users to extremist websites.
— Maajid Nawaz
After the Islamic State, even al-Qaeda appears 'moderate'.
— Maajid Nawaz
The cheeky ideal I am calling for is that Muslims should be viewed as equal citizens, nothing more and nothing less.
— Maajid Nawaz
Islamism. It's an ideology. People are seeking to bring it about, but they differ in their approach.
— Maajid Nawaz
I was born and raised in Essex, just outside London, to a financially comfortable, well-educated Pakistani family.
— Maajid Nawaz
Non-violent extremism is essentially the increase of intolerant and bigoted demands made by groups seeking to dominate society.
— Maajid Nawaz
In prison I had the opportunity to debate and discuss people that had subscribed to all forms of Islamism.
— Maajid Nawaz
To suggest that a Muslim cannot think for himself sounds to me very much like an incident of anti-Muslim bigotry.
— Maajid Nawaz
When I returned to the United Kingdom, I found that I could no longer justify Islamist extremism as the antidote.
— Maajid Nawaz
Having our fundamental assumptions about life challenged is never a comfortable thing.
— Maajid Nawaz
Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
— Maajid Nawaz
I have founded Khudi, in Pakistan, a youth movement which tries to counter extremist ideology through healthy discussion and debate.
— Maajid Nawaz
I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.
— Maajid Nawaz
It's not always the case that Muslims have been theocrats.
— Maajid Nawaz
The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
— Maajid Nawaz
