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Radical, May 2013
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My Journey out of Islamist Extremism
Lyons
May 2013
On Sale: May 14, 2013
300 pages
ISBN: 0762791365
EAN: 9780762791361
Kindle: B00COCYANU
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Non-Fiction
Maajid Nawaz spent his teenage years listening to American
hip-hop and learning about the radical Islamist movement
spreading throughout Europe and Asia in the 1980s and 90s.
At 16, he was already a ranking member in Hizb ut-Tahrir, a
London-based Islamist group. He quickly rose through the
ranks to become a top recruiter, a charismatic spokesman for
the cause of uniting Islam’s political power across the
world. Nawaz was setting up satellite groups in Pakistan,
Denmark, and Egypt when he was rounded up in the aftermath
of 9/11 along with many other radical Muslims.
He was sent to an Egyptian prison where he
was, fortuitously, jailed along 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 wrong, and determined to
do something 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. He began an
activist group in Pakistan as well, using his intimate
knowledge of recruitment tactics in order 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, updated epilogue.
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