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| Nawaz was born in [[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southend-on-Sea | Southend ]] of Pakistani parents in 1978. | Nawaz was born in [[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southend-on-Sea | Southend ]] England in 1978, of Pakistani parents. |
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| and spent years in prison. There, he learned about the much richer and complete Koran, | and spent 2001 to 2006 in prison. There, he learned about the much richer and complete Koran, |
Radical
My Journey out of Islamist Extremism
Maajid Nawaz, 2013
Nawaz was born in Southend England in 1978, of Pakistani parents. Abused by other kids, he encountered Islam, both as a guiding principle and a threat against gangs. But this was Hizb ut-Tahrir: radical, Islamist, restore-the-caliphate, blame-the-west Islam, sparked by western indifference to the fate of caucasian Muslims in Bosnia, based on a selective reading of the of Koran, and western nationalism.
This is not the scimitar-wielding woman-mutilating Jihadism that led to the Taliban, but it still is at odds with the west and many Muslim dictatorships, where Nawaz travelled as a recruiter. In Egypt, he was arrested by Mubarrak's secret police, abused, threatened with torture, and spent 2001 to 2006 in prison. There, he learned about the much richer and complete Koran, and met leaders of the future Arab spring in Egypt. He was released with the help of Amnesty International.
He now leads a London thinktank, Quilliam
He quotes this translation of Jalaluddin Rumi on page 179:
- Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah ... it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you."
This may be a too-secular translation; others point out that this bowdlerizes Rumi's more Allah-centric verse.