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Maajid Nawaz spent his teenage years listening to American hip-hop and learning about the radical Islamist movement spreading all over Europe and Asia in the 1980s and 90s. At 16, he was once already a ranking member in Hizb ut-Tahrir, a London-based Islamist group. He quickly rose through the ranks to grow to be a top recruiter, a charismatic spokesman for the cause of uniting Islam’s political power across the world. Nawaz was once setting up satellite groups in Pakistan, Denmark, and Egypt when he was once rounded up in the aftermath of 9/11 in conjunction with many other radical Muslims.
He was once sent to an Egyptian prison where he was once, fortuitously, jailed in conjunction with the assassins of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. The 20 years in prison had changed the assassins’ views on Islam and violence; Maajid went into prison preaching to them about the Islamist cause, but the lessons ended up going the other way. He came out of prison four years later completely changed, convinced that his entire belief system had been mistaken, and made up our minds to do something positive about it.
He met with activists and heads of state, built a network, and started a foundation, Quilliam, funded by the British government, to combat the rising Islamist tide in Europe and elsewhere, the use of his intimate knowledge of recruitment tactics so as to reverse extremism and persuade Muslims that the ‘narrative’ used to recruit them (that the West is evil and the cause of all of Muslim suffering), is false. Radical, first published in the UK, is a fascinating and important look into one man’s journey out of extremism and into something else entirely.
This U.S. edition contains a “Preface for US readers” and a new, up to date epilogue.
He was once sent to an Egyptian prison where he was once, fortuitously, jailed in conjunction with the assassins of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. The 20 years in prison had changed the assassins’ views on Islam and violence; Maajid went into prison preaching to them about the Islamist cause, but the lessons ended up going the other way. He came out of prison four years later completely changed, convinced that his entire belief system had been mistaken, and made up our minds to do something positive about it.
He met with activists and heads of state, built a network, and started a foundation, Quilliam, funded by the British government, to combat the rising Islamist tide in Europe and elsewhere, the use of his intimate knowledge of recruitment tactics so as to reverse extremism and persuade Muslims that the ‘narrative’ used to recruit them (that the West is evil and the cause of all of Muslim suffering), is false. Radical, first published in the UK, is a fascinating and important look into one man’s journey out of extremism and into something else entirely.
This U.S. edition contains a “Preface for US readers” and a new, up to date epilogue.
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