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In today’s Britain, the weakest among us are often assumed to be minority communities. In fact, the weakest among us are those minorities-within-minorities for whom the legal right to exit from their communities’ constraints amounts to nothing before the enforcement of cultural and religious shaming.

— Maajid Nawaz On Blasphemy (2015)

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I think it's important just to distinguish between Islamism and Islam, a religion.

Comments in The Story of God with Morgan Freeman (2016)

When I saw him I thought, "my God, if these guys ever came to power and declared a caliphate, it would be Hell on Earth."

Comments in The Story of God with Morgan Freeman (2016)

Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.

I am still a Muslim, but I am now liberal.

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There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. There is no equivalent of Al-Qaeda without the terrorism.

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