Once you subscribe to an ideological dogma as a solution to certain grievances, it then frames your mindset.
Maajid NawazAfter much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.
Maajid NawazIf we are true small 'l' liberals, it's our job to seek out feminist Muslims, ex-Muslims, liberal Muslims, dissenting voices within Muslim communities, gay Muslims - we should promote those voices and in doing so, we demonstrate Islam is not a monolith, Muslims are not homogenous, and that Muslims are truly internally diverse.
Maajid NawazThere was a genocide unfolding against Bosnian Muslims and we, in the United Kingdom, were incredibly angered - a teenager at the time, 15 years old, so my young teenage mind processed that in a way typical to the very passionate and angry and black-and-white way that teenagers often can do.
Maajid Nawaz