Maajid Nawaz Quotes
I’m a Muslim, we come from a Muslim community and we are very critical of western or American foreign policy. So if I’ve got the right and if other Muslims have got the right to criticize… likewise everyone else has also got the right to criticize everything else.
Nawaz, Maajid. Interview by Dave Rubin. The Rubin Report, 2 Oct. 2015.
Fiji is a nation which at the time was beset with ethnic strife and tension. In addition to the religious tension there were Indian immigrants who tended to be economically more successful than the indigenous Fijians. There was an English tradition from the days of being a British Colony and the traditional tribal leaders and chiefs were being disenfranchised by modern democratic structures. The military was not under the control of the civilian government and coups pitted some ethnic groups against others.
Singapore has three main ethnic groups, Malays—the indigenous people—Chinese, and Indians. The latter two groups have been more successful intellectually and commercially however the Malays are the largest group. There has been a history of resentment and discrimination as there has been in Malaysia and Indonesia. However, Singapore—under the leadership of Lee Kuan Yew—has minimized it and kept a lid on overt conflict and antagonism. However, he has restricted freedom of the press and freedom of speech to eliminate incendiary triggering incidents.
This phrase and the theory behind it are often misattributed to Samuel P. Huntington who first used it as the title of a talk at the American Enterprise Institute in 1992 and the following year used if as the Title of a very important article in Foreign Affairs. Huntington was very familiar with Lewis’ works and doubtless used the Lewis phrase as it perfectly fit Huntington’s concept. See {604193}.
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.
