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Before someone can change his ideas, he has to open his heart. — Maajid Nawaz

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. — Maajid Nawaz

America did not invade Iraq because Iraqis are Muslims. Oil, money, economic interests. Who knows? But it was not because Iraqis are Muslims. — Maajid Nawaz

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

Preying on the grievances of disaffected young men is the bedrock of Islamism. — Maajid Nawaz

Satire has been a sanctuary historically monopolized by progressives, originally used as a discreet tool against Western religious fundamentalism. — 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

Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization. — Maajid Nawaz

Once you subscribe to an ideological dogma as a solution to certain grievances, it then frames your mindset. — Maajid Nawaz

We have to render Islamist extremism as unattractive as communism has become today. — Maajid Nawaz

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

No idea is above scrutiny and no people are beneath dignity. — Maajid Nawaz

I was imprisoned in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks, when Egypt's state security was rounding people up in unprecedented numbers. — Maajid Nawaz

Does freedom of speech give the right to offend? — Maajid Nawaz

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

We can't remain silent on gender rights and personal freedoms. — Maajid Nawaz

More violence does not necessarily equate with greater religious conviction. — 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

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

Dogma not only blinds its protagonist, but it muzzles all other opposition. — 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

The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist. — Maajid Nawaz

To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them. — Maajid Nawaz

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. — 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

In the United Kingdom, we need to promote an inclusive British identity that involves and empowers people from all ethnic and faith backgrounds. — Maajid Nawaz

I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became. — 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 British and French governments have taken a strong stance against 'extremist content' online when addressing their approach to tackling extremism. — 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

I worked my way through the education system and was treated as though I had value. — Maajid Nawaz

After the Islamic State, even al-Qaeda appears 'moderate'. — Maajid Nawaz

We cannot hope to effectively counter extremism if we just focus on schools, universities and prisons: we need to take this online as well. — 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

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

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

I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K. — 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

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. — Maajid Nawaz

Societies should be judged by how they treat the weakest among them. — Maajid Nawaz

Muslim communities themselves, as they expect mainstream society to stand down racists, must do more to also stand down the Islamist extremists. — 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

If we look at Abdel Nasser in Egypt as an Arab leader, he was secular. — 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. — Maajid Nawaz

After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for. — Maajid Nawaz

I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British. — Maajid Nawaz

Liberalism will beat totalitarianism by killing it softly, not by mimicking it. — 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

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

Hizb ut-Tahrir spearheaded the radicalization of the 1990s and cultivated an atmosphere of anger. — Maajid Nawaz