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Maajid Nawaz

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Maajid Nawaz is an author and Founding Chairman of Quilliam – a globally active think tank focusing on matters of integration, citizenship & identity, religious freedom, extremism and immigration.

Human rights and a respect for individual liberty are matters close to Maajid’s heart. His work is informed by years spent in his youth as a leadership member of a global Islamist group, and his gradual transformation towards liberal democratic values.

Having served four years as an Amnesty International adopted ‘prisoner of conscience’ in Egypt, Maajid is now a leading critic of his former Islamist ideological dogma, while remaining a Muslim.

He encourages the reform of Islam today, inclusive citizenship-based participation of Muslims in their re Maajid Nawaz is an author and Founding Chairman of Quilliam – a globally active think tank focusing on matters of integration, citizenship & identity, religious freedom, extremism and immigration.

Human rights and a respect for individual liberty are matters close to Maajid’s heart. His work is informed by years spent in his youth as a leadership member of a global Islamist group, and his gradual transformation towards liberal democratic values.

Having served four years as an Amnesty International adopted ‘prisoner of conscience’ in Egypt, Maajid is now a leading critic of his former Islamist ideological dogma, while remaining a Muslim.

He encourages the reform of Islam today, inclusive citizenship-based participation of Muslims in their respective countries, and seeks to synergize a respect for human rights with the civic liberal imperative to defend those in danger of being stigmatized by extremists of all stripes due to their personal choices.

Maajid's autobiographical account of his life story ‘RADICAL’ has been released in the UK and US.

Maajid is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society and has been listed as one of the most influential people in the UK Debretts 500 index, and the ‘Who’s Who’ index. Maajid is also a Daily Beast columnist, and provides occasional columns for the London Times, New York Times and Wall Street Journal among others. Maajid was the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary candidate for the May 2015 British General Election, and remains the Parliamentary spokesman for Camden Liberal Democrats in London.

A British-Pakistani born in Essex, Maajid speaks English, Arabic and Urdu, holds a BA (Hons) from SOAS in Arabic and Law and an MSc in Political Theory from the London School of Economics (LSE). He is personally interested in Arabic grammar & morphology, Muslim Medieval jurisprudence and scholastics and emerging modern political thought and trends.

Maajid can be contacted on Twitter: @maajidnawaz ...more

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	Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue by Sam Harris, Maajid Nawaz (Goodreads Author) 4.02 avg rating — 7,502 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Radical: My Journey Out Of Islamist Extremism by Maajid Nawaz (Goodreads Author), Tom Bromley (Primary Contributor) 4.03 avg rating — 3,117 ratings — published 2012 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Islam Aani Sahishnuteche Bhavitavya/ इस्लाम आणि संहिष्णूतेचे भवितव्य by Sam Harris, Maajid Nawaz (Goodreads Author), Karuna Gokhale (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“No idea is above scrutiny and no people are beneath dignity.”
― Maajid Nawaz, Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue

tags: atheism, free-speech, freethought, islam, islamism, reason, religion, skepticism

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“The great liberal betrayal of this generation is that in the name of liberalism, communal rights have been prioritized over individual autonomy within minority groups. And minorities within minorities really do suffer because of this betrayal. The people I really worry about when we have this conversation are feminist Muslims, gay Muslims, ex-Muslims—all the vulnerable and bullied individuals who are not just stigmatized but in many cases violently assaulted or killed merely for being against the norm.”
― Maajid Nawaz, Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue

tags: feminist, gay, muslim

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“As he continued to talk to me, I realized one of the fundamental points about Islamism that so many people fail to understand. The way Osman was speaking wasn’t in the orthodox, religious way of the imam with a stick; he was talking about politics, about events that were happening now. That’s crucial to understanding what Islamism is all about: it isn’t a religious movement with political consequences, it is a political movement with religious consequences.”
― Maajid Nawaz, Radical: My Journey out of Islamist Extremism

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The Atheist Book Club: August-September Group Read: Call to Vote (ends July 28)

Note: A shorter 2nd voting round will be created if a specific title is not clearly chosen by participants, or if specific titles are difficult to buy/borrow (at the discretion of the moderators' team)

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens

22 votes, 29.7%

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

10 votes, 13.5%

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris

5 votes, 6.8%

On the Historicity of Jesus: Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt by Richard Carrier

5 votes, 6.8%

Philosophers Without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life by Louise M. Antony

5 votes, 6.8%

The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design by Richard Dawkins

4 votes, 5.4%

Radical: My Journey from Islamist Extremism to a Democratic Awakening by Maajid Nawaz

4 votes, 5.4%

Inventing a Christian America: The Myth of the Religious Founding by Steven K. Green

4 votes, 5.4%

Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel C. Dennett

3 votes, 4.1%

Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution by Mona Eltahawy

3 votes, 4.1%

Thinking: The New Science of Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Prediction by John Brockman

3 votes, 4.1%

Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue by Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz

2 votes, 2.7%

Everybody Is Wrong About God by James A. Lindsay

2 votes, 2.7%

Son of Hamas by Mosab Hassan Yousef

1 vote, 1.4%

Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

1 vote, 1.4%

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