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  • My Journey from Islamist Extremism to a Democratic Awakening
  • By: Maajid Nawaz
  • Narrated by: Maajid Nawaz
  • Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (73 ratings)

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By: Maajid Nawaz
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Born and raised in Essex, Maajid Nawaz was recruited into politicised Islam as a teenager. Abandoning his love of hip-hop music, graffiti and girls, he was recruited into Hizb ut-Tahrir (the Liberation Party), where he played a leading and international role in the shaping and dissemination of an aggressive anti-West narrative. While studying for his Arabic and law degree, he travelled around the UK and to Denmark and Pakistan, setting up new cells.

He arrived in Egypt the day before 9/11, where his views soon led to his arrest, imprisonment and mental torture before he was thrown into solitary confinement in a Cairo jail reserved for political prisoners. There, while mixing with everyone from the assassins of Egypt's president to Liberal reformists, he underwent an intellectual transformation, and on his release after four years, he publically renounced the Islamist ideology that had defined his life. This move would cost him his marriage, his family and his friends as well as his own personal security.

Six years after his release, Maajid now works all over the world to counter Islamism and to promote democratic ideals through his organisation, The Quilliam Foundation, which he cofounded with former Islamist and best-selling author Ed Husain.

Following in the wake of the extraordinary democratic change in the Arab world that few would have foretold, Radical is Maajid's intensely personal account of life inside and out of Islamic extremism. It also highlights one man's quest to inspire change and challenge extremism in all its forms. This is a hard-hitting memoir of one man's journey into and out of Islamic extremism.

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A true story with significant impact

A real eye opener, I throughly enjoyed being taken on the journey.
You will not be disappointed.

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We need more people like Mr. Nawaaz

Brilliantly written and very well spoken, this story is both captivating and powerful.
I think Maajid Nawaz's story is far from over.

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terrific insight

This was such a brilliant insight into the life of a man who started life in a similar place in the world to me but who's heritage and appearance lead him to such a different path. What this story does more than anything else though is humanize a man who at many staged of his life would be written off as a statistic. Thank you, Maajid.

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an important book for these times

an amazing book. Brilliantly written and spoken. This is a must read for all those concerned about islamist ideology and the spread of this amongst the west.

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An amazing story of necessary transformation.

This has been on my Read List for awhile. And it did not miss. Maajid tells a whirlwind of a story of youth, xenophobia, rage, suffering and then coming out a better person on the other side.

His story connects with you on certain levels, disgust's you on others. But change and redemption never comes easy and MN is a testimony of that.

Looking forward to now to reading his book with Sam Harris.

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Great Value

Often the great stories open as many questions as they answer, and this fits the bill. Having first read Nawaz's collaboration with Sam Harris, this biography really elucidates the history of modern Islam, clarifying further Nawaz's distinctions of Islam, Islamism and Jiladism I first encountered in the aforementioned book.

We have this conundrum in the west, where whilst the left refuses to acknowledge, often apologising for, the shortcomings of political Islam, the rights aggressive reactionary response to it is more often than not counterproductive. I saw the latter first hand, to some extent, having entered high school in 2001. Having seen the abuse the mere handful of Muslim kids experienced, and extrapolating this around the world, it's not hard to see how the proselytising of the author's younger self would have had resonance.

Having learnt from his incredible life experiences, and read and studied widely, Nawaz maps out for us a constructive middle ground. Having been a radicalised Islamist in his youth, he knows better than most how to reverse the process, promoting with his think tank Quilliam a youth movement promoting democratic ideals among Muslim youth.

Finally, the choice of writer as narrator proved an exceptional choice. Highly recommended.

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A must read for today's youth

Maajid has written and insightful, interesting story. a book of warning and hope for a better future

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Powerful

What a story. Maajid Nawaz is hugely charismatic and balanced. I'm telling anyone who will listen about this story.

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