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Maajid Usman Nawaz (Urdu: [ˈmaːdʒɪd̪ nəwaːz]; born 2 November 1977) [1] is a British activist and former radio presenter. He was the founding chairman of the think tank Quilliam . Until January 2022, he was the host of an LBC radio show on Saturdays and Sundays.
ISBN. 9780753540770 [2] Radical: My Journey out of Islamist Extremism is a 2012 memoir by the British activist Maajid Nawaz, who is also a former Islamist. First published in the United Kingdom, the book describes Nawaz's journey "from Muslim extremist to taking tea at Number 10 ". The United States edition contains a preface for American ...
Quilliam was a British think tank co-founded in 2008 by Maajid Nawaz that focused on counter- extremism, specifically against Islamism, which it argued represents a desire to impose a given interpretation of Islam on society.
Amna Nawaz ( Urdu: آمنہ نواز) is an American broadcast journalist and a co-anchor of the PBS NewsHour alongside Geoff Bennett. [1] Before joining PBS in April 2018, Nawaz was an anchor and correspondent at ABC News and NBC News. She has received a number of awards, including an Emmy Award and a Society for Features Journalism award.
In October 2016, the Southern Poverty Law Center accused Ayaan, and the Muslim activist Maajid Nawaz, of being "anti-Muslim extremists", which caused protests in several prominent newspapers. [ 121 ] [ 122 ] [ 123 ] The Lantos Foundation for Human Rights & Justice wrote a public letter to the SPLC asking them to retract the listings.
978-0-674-08870-2. Preceded by. Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion Radical: My Journey out of Islamist Extremism. Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue is a 2015 book collaboration between American author Sam Harris and British activist Maajid Nawaz. The book has been subsequently adapted into a documentary film of the ...
Protesters against the Gaza war staged a sit-in at a congressional office building Tuesday ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to Congress, with Capitol Police making ...
Muslim Liberal Democrat politician Maajid Nawaz tweeted a picture of one of the Jesus and Mo T-shirts, after the cartoon came up in a discussion on a BBC programme The Big Questions. On the programme, the production team stopped participants from being shown wearing T-shirts with the cartoon, which depicted Jesus saying "Hey" and "Mo" saying ...