Maajid Nawaz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Maajid Nawaz

British activist

Date of Birth: 02-Nov-1977

Place of Birth: Westcliff-on-Sea, England, United Kingdom

Profession: politician, human rights activist, essayist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

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About Maajid Nawaz

  • Maajid Usman Nawaz (Urdu: ['ma?d??d? n?wa?z]; born 2 November 1977) is a British activist and radio presenter.
  • He is the founding chairman of Quilliam, a counter-extremism think tank that seeks to challenge the narratives of Islamist extremists, and the host of a radio show on LBC, every Saturday and Sunday. Born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex to a British Pakistani family, Nawaz is a former member of the Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir.
  • This association led to his arrest in Egypt in December 2001, where he remained imprisoned until 2006.
  • Reading books on human rights and interacting with Amnesty International, which adopted him as a prisoner of conscience, resulted in a change of heart: he left Hizb-ut-Tahrir in 2007, renounced his Islamist past, and called for a "secular Islam".
  • After his turnaround, Nawaz co-founded Quilliam with former Islamists, including Ed Husain.
  • He wrote an autobiography, Radical (2012) and has since become a prominent critic of Islamism in the United Kingdom. He is a weekly columnist for The Daily Beast, and his writings have been published in various international newspapers, he appears frequently on television, and has delivered lectures including at the UK Defence Academy and Marshall Center for Security Studies.
  • His second book, Islam and the Future of Tolerance (2015), co-authored with atheist author Sam Harris, was published in October 2015.
  • He was the Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for London's Hampstead and Kilburn constituency in the 2015 general election.

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