Maajid Nawaz Quotes
I was in prison with pretty much the who's who of the jihadist and Islamist scene of Egypt at the time, and Egypt was the cradle of Islamism for the world - it's where it began and where jihadism began as well.
Harris, Sam, and Maajid Nawaz. Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue. Harvard University Press, 2015.
Duran has been the subject of major criticism and attack by many who regard the term as too prejudicial and inflammatory, that there is an automatic association in the term of all Islam and Fascism. While Duran’s position is that the term only applies to extremists who embrace values and actions that were consonant with Fascism, there are other Islamic critics who believe that basic Islam is Fascistic per se and the term should be applied to almost everything Islamic.
Some think that origination credit should go to Malise Ruthven who used the word in an article published in The Independent of September 8, 1990
He was comparing the Muslim Brotherhood and ISIS. H was trying to eradicate both organizations. Most Western leaders saw the Muslim Brotherhood as a less dangerous and less virulent organization than ISUS, HAMAS and other more overt terrorist organizations. Siri however has perspective of owe 50 years of history with the Muslim Brotherhood, and although they have got through periods of claimed political participation and not terrorism, Sisi and other Egyptians observe that all of these more virulent terrorist troops share the same ideology and end goals as the Muslem Brotherhood, and all these terrorist groups have been outgrowths of the Muslim Brotherhood. H argues that the Brotherhood must be wiped out else there will be more and more terorist groups to replace those that we might destroy.
Maajid Usman Nawaz is a British activist and radio presenter. He is the founding chairman of Quilliam, a counter-extremism think tank that seeks to challenge the narratives of Islamist extremists, and the host of a radio show on LBC, every Saturday and Sunday.
