After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.

- Maajid Nawaz

Once you subscribe to an ideological dogma as a solution to certain grievances, it then frames your mindset.

- Maajid Nawaz

We have to render Islamist extremism as unattractive as communism has become today.

- Maajid Nawaz

Does freedom of speech give the right to offend?

- Maajid Nawaz

If we are true small 'l' liberals, it's our job to seek out feminist Muslims, ex-Muslims, liberal Muslims, dissenting voices within Muslim communitie…

- Maajid Nawaz

No form of theocracy, whether it's manifested in a violent or non-violent form, is ever good for civilisation, and we have to challenge it in civil s…

- Maajid Nawaz

I believe that preventing radicalisation is far more efficient than de-radicalisation, meaning stopping someone joining is a lot easier than trying t…

- Maajid Nawaz

I’m a Muslim, we come from a Muslim community and we are very critical of western or American foreign policy. So if I’ve got the right and if other M…

- Maajid Nawaz

No idea is above scrutiny. No idea whatsoever. To criticize, to scrutinize and to satirize my own religion [Islam] is not Islamophobia.

- Maajid Nawaz