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Wednesday, 29 March 2017

Can a Former Islamist Make It Cool to Be moderate?

Maajid Nawaz on a drizzly afternoon in March

Maajid Nawaz has commenced a basis to combat Muslim extremism — and has made a number of enemies within the procedure/italianska.

I met Maajid Nawaz on a drizzly afternoon in March, tucked in a nook of the eating place at the significant London members’ membership he makes use of as a satellite office. He became dabbing the hen from his Caesar salad into a mound of yellow English mustard, which he stopped doing for lengthy enough to load a video on his iPhone and slide it across the table. It showed the Southern Poverty law center’s Heidi Beirich, speaking at Duke university approximately him. “allow me just give you an example of Maajid Nawaz — our hassle with him,” she says. “He believes that every one mosques should be surveilled. In other phrases, his opinion is that each one Muslims are ability terrorists.” Nawaz, a Muslim himself, bristled with frustration on the declare. In fact, he explained, he is on record making the case in opposition to collective surveillance.