Maajid Nawaz Quotes
My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner.
Nawaz, Maajid. Radical: My Journey out of Islamist Extremism. Lyons Press, 2013.
Gramsci had been arrested 2 years earlier by Mussolini along with most of the dictator’s political opponents. Gramsci died in prison.
Matus had written an expose entitled the Black Book of Chilean Justice. The government not only banned the book, but jailed the Publisher and Chief Editor of the publishing company.
Despite being a member of NATO, Turkey, in the beginning of the 21st century had a Prime Minister with very thin skin and he could not handle criticism.
After the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat hundreds of Egyptian religious fundamentalists were rounded up, jailed and tortured. al-Zawahiri broke under torture and revealed the names of some of his anti-government associates. Although he was not personally involved in the murder of Sadat, he served three additional years in jail. Motivated by has thirst for revenge at his torturers and his guilt at having been forced to betray his friend, he learned all he could about terrorism from the older Jihadists also in the same jail, and when he was released he elevated Islamic terrorism to another level by developing a strategy for the use of suicide bombers.
CREEP in the Nixon Campaign. He was himself a convicted Watergate conspirator
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.
