6/19/2023 0 Comments Radical by Maajid Nawaz![]() ![]() 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. While studying for his Arabic and law degree, he travelled around the UK and to Denmark and Pakistan, setting up new cells.Īrriving in Egypt the day before 9/11 his views soon led to his arrest, imprisonment and mental torture, before being thrown into solitary confinement in a Cairo jail reserved for political prisoners. 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. ![]() Born and raised in Essex, Maajid Nawaz was recruited into politicised Islam as a teenager. ![]()
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