ISBN: 9781493025725

Maajid Nawaz spent his teenage years listening to American hip-hop and learning about the radical Islamist movement spreading throughout Europe and Asia in the 1980s and 90s. At 16, he wa… Mehr…

Maajid Nawaz spent his teenage years listening to American hip-hop and learning about the radical Islamist movement spreading throughout Europe and Asia in the 1980s and 90s. At 16, he was already a ranking member in Hizb ut-Tahrir, a London-based Islamist group. He quickly rose through the ranks to become a top recruiter, a charismatic spokesman for the cause of uniting Islam’s political power across the world. Nawaz was setting up satellite groups in Pakistan, Denmark, and Egypt when he was rounded up in the aftermath of 9/11 along with many other radical Muslims. He was sent to an Egyptian prison where he was, fortuitously, jailed along with the assassins of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. The 20 years in prison had changed the assassins’ views on Islam and violence; Maajid went into prison preaching to them about the Islamist cause, but the lessons ended up going the other way. He came out of prison four years later completely changed, convinced that his entire belief system had been wrong, and determined to do something about it. He met with activists and heads of state, built a network, and started a foundation, Quilliam, funded by the British government, to combat the rising Islamist tide in Europe and elsewhere, using his intimate knowledge of recruitment tactics in order to reverse extremism and persuade Muslims that the ‘narrative’ used to recruit them (that the West is evil and the cause of all of Muslim suffering), is false. Radical, first published in the UK, is a fascinating and important look into one man's journey out of extremism and into something else entirely.This U.S. edition contains a Preface for US readers and a new, updated epilogue. Digital Content>E-books>Biography>Historical Biog,Memoir>Hist Biog,Memoir, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Digital >16<

ISBN: 9781493025725

Maajid Nawaz spent his teenage years listening to American hip-hop and learning about the radical Islamist movement spreading throughout Europe and Asia in the 1980s and 90s. At 16, he wa… Mehr…

Maajid Nawaz spent his teenage years listening to American hip-hop and learning about the radical Islamist movement spreading throughout Europe and Asia in the 1980s and 90s. At 16, he was already a ranking member in Hizb ut-Tahrir, a London-based Islamist group. He quickly rose through the ranks to become a top recruiter, a charismatic spokesman for the cause of uniting Islam’s political power across the world. Nawaz was setting up satellite groups in Pakistan, Denmark, and Egypt when he was rounded up in the aftermath of 9/11 along with many other radical Muslims. He was sent to an Egyptian prison where he was, fortuitously, jailed along with the assassins of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. The 20 years in prison had changed the assassins’ views on Islam and violence; Maajid went into prison preaching to them about the Islamist cause, but the lessons ended up going the other way. He came out of prison four years later completely changed, convinced that his entire belief system had been wrong, and determined to do something about it. He met with activists and heads of state, built a network, and started a foundation, Quilliam, funded by the British government, to combat the rising Islamist tide in Europe and elsewhere, using his intimate knowledge of recruitment tactics in order to reverse extremism and persuade Muslims that the ‘narrative’ used to recruit them (that the West is evil and the cause of all of Muslim suffering), is false. Radical, first published in the UK, is a fascinating and important look into one man's journey out of extremism and into something else entirely. This U.S. edition contains a "Preface for US readers" and a new, updated epilogue. 9781493000616,9781493025725,1493025724 Other pricing structure might be available at vitalsource.com., Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group<

ISBN: 9781493025725

Updated with new material on the Charlie Hebdo attack, ISIS, and more, this is the memoir that made Maajid Nawaz an international talking head on Islamist extremism, one who writes regula… Mehr…

Updated with new material on the Charlie Hebdo attack, ISIS, and more, this is the memoir that made Maajid Nawaz an international talking head on Islamist extremism, one who writes regularly for the New York Times, and is a frequent guest on CNN and other news networks. At age 16, Nawaz became a ranking member in Hizb ut-Tahrir, a London-based Islamist group, and organized satellite groups in Pakistan, Denmark, and Egypt. Rounded up in the aftermath of 9/11, he was imprisoned alongside the assassins of Anwar Sadat. It was on that cell block that Nawaz felt his identity shift. Nawaz went into prison preaching the Islamist cause, and he left convinced that his entire belief system had been wrong. Nawaz left prison determined to undo all that he had once believed in. Radical is a fascinating and important autobiographical account of one man's journey out of extremism and into something else entirely. Digital Content>E-books>Biography>Historical Biog,Memoir>Hist Biog,Memoir, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Digital >16<

2016, ISBN: 9781493025725

My Journey out of Islamist Extremism, eBook Download (EPUB), eBooks, [PU: Lyons Press]