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If the dangers of racism are apparent, even in a non-violent form, then it was the same for Islamism. Communalist identity politics, self-segregation and group-think are far more damaging to societies in the long run than the odd bomb going off here or there, because it is such a milieu that keeps breeding bomb-makers.

— Maajid Nawaz Radical: My Journey out of Islamist Extremism (2012)

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

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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."

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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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