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Maajid Nawaz

Maajid Nawaz is Co-Founder and Chairman of Quilliam – a globally active think tank focusing on matters of Integration, Citizenship & Identity, Religious Freedom, Extremism and Immigration - and Founder of Khudi, a Pakistan based social movement campaigning to entrench democratic culture among the nation’s youth. Follow him on Twitter @MaajidNawaz.

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OPPORTUNITY ACCOSTING

The NZ Mosque Massacre Blame Game Already Has Gone Too Far

Radical Islamists and radical leftists have seized on the Christchurch tragedy to push their own hateful agendas.

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DEADLY FRENEMIES

The London Mosque Killer Attacked Muslims, but Helped ISIS

Anti-Muslim bigots and Islamists are often viewed as two opposing groups, when in fact they are but two sides of the same coin.

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THEY ARE NOT ALONE

Manchester and the Myth of the ‘Lone Wolf’

It’s all too easy to blame terrorist attacks on isolated losers, but they are part of a community, believers in an ideology, and often have behind-the-scenes support.

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Snatched

Saudi Woman Abducted at the Airport

Dina Ali Lasloom was looking for freedom. Instead she was detained thousands of miles from home, beaten, wrapped up like a mummy, and sent back to the kingdom.

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Pact Britannica

You Hate Brexit? Get Over It!

No amount of mourning will reverse the course of Brexit. But if liberals are smart they can make the new reality something that satisfies—and exalts—their values

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Iniquitous Inquisition

‘Footloose’ Fatwas in the U.K.

A Muslim teenager filmed twerking while wearing her headscarf causes a storm of unacceptable but all-too-predictable intolerance.

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Reformers & Apologists

My Open Letter to the Muslim Brotherhood

I am prepared to accept that perhaps you—as an individual—believe in our reform. Your group does not.

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Raw Recruits

We’re Turning Refugees Into Soldiers

The Trump travel ban and the current U.K. deportation of child refugees both play right into the hands of the so-called Islamic State.

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SO LONG

Goodbye to Obama’s Imperial Presidency

To paraphrase the Bard, the evil that he did lives after him, the good will be interrèd by the Republicans.

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UN-FAIR

The UN’s Anti-Israel Bias Is Stunning

There are horrific injustices all over the world, including and especially in the Muslim world, but those are ignored by an institution obsessed with Israel.

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