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  • Maajid Nawaz
     OP - May 16, 2010, 11:17 PM
    Question especially for the limey ex-Muslims-- you guys familiar with this dude? What do you think of him?

    I saw him on the "60 Minutes" episode couple of weeks ago:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO2FhdLvPxA

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loS-W9NoUX0&feature=related


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maajid_Nawaz

    fuck you
  • Re: Maajid Nawaz
     Reply #1 - May 16, 2010, 11:22 PM
    He is a good man.  He is trying to enlighten Islam from within.  He has a very interesting story about how he left Hizb-ut-Tahrir after spending 4 years in jail in Egypt.  He is the co-founder of the Quilliam Foundation.  See http://www.quilliamfoundation.org/
    They have a YouTube channel too.  See http://www.youtube.com/user/QuilliamFoundation
    "Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so." -- Bertrand Russell

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  • Re: Maajid Nawaz
     Reply #2 - May 16, 2010, 11:24 PM
    Don't know that much about him. He's ex Hizb ut Tahrir who realised how stupid Islamism and Ummah Identity Politics were and went public with his criticisms. He's part of Ed Husain's Quillam Foundation, seen him speak a couple of times, read a couple of his comment pieces. He's still a practising Muslim, he just hates the Islamists and the Islam-as-Politics types now.

    "we can smell traitors and country haters"


    Quote from: arX on May 01, 2011, 03:33 AM
    God is Love.
    Love is Blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God.

  • Re: Maajid Nawaz
     Reply #3 - May 16, 2010, 11:24 PM
    Quote from: Q-Man on May 16, 2010, 11:17 PM
    Question especially for the limey ex-Muslims-- you guys familiar with this dude? What do you think of him?

    What's a limey ex-Muslim?
    .
  • Re: Maajid Nawaz
     Reply #4 - May 16, 2010, 11:25 PM
    Limey is a slang word the yanks use for British people.

    "we can smell traitors and country haters"


    Quote from: arX on May 01, 2011, 03:33 AM
    God is Love.
    Love is Blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God.

  • Re: Maajid Nawaz
     Reply #5 - May 16, 2010, 11:54 PM
    I personally think the word is missing a S.
  • Re: Maajid Nawaz
     Reply #6 - May 17, 2010, 01:33 AM
    Thanks for sharing. Very interesting. I love Stahl BTW. She's one of the coolest sexiest smartest women I have seen. I used to watch a lot of 60 minutes when it was free on Yahoo News. Sadly it's no longer free.  Cry


    On a side note, I was taken aback by some of the comments but then I realized it's a Christian-oriented channel.
  • Re: Maajid Nawaz
     Reply #7 - May 17, 2010, 01:35 AM
    WHAT?! Sorry IA can you explain further? What exactly is a Christian channel.

    I have added 60 minutes to my weekly show, along with SNL. I think I'm pretty good now.
  • Re: Maajid Nawaz
     Reply #8 - May 17, 2010, 01:38 AM
    He's talkin about the YouTube channel that posted the 60 minutes video.
    fuck you
  • Re: Maajid Nawaz
     Reply #9 - May 17, 2010, 01:42 AM
    Phew.
  • Re: Maajid Nawaz
     Reply #10 - May 17, 2010, 01:42 AM
    Cause I fucking hate Christians.
  • Re: Maajid Nawaz
     Reply #11 - May 17, 2010, 01:42 AM
    And Jews. Just thought I'd add that there.
  • Re: Maajid Nawaz
     Reply #12 - May 17, 2010, 01:44 AM
    The Youtube channel where the video is uploaded. So the comments are bound to be slanted (because of the ideology of the subscribers).

    These are the comments I was referring to:






  • Re: Maajid Nawaz
     Reply #13 - May 17, 2010, 01:47 AM
    Why don't you download the show? I mean what's the difference between streaming it on Youtube and downloading it? Since CBS is not the one streaming 60 minutes.
  • Re: Maajid Nawaz
     Reply #14 - May 17, 2010, 01:50 AM
    You could have described the YouTube comments simply by saying "Uhhhhh, *drool*, duhhhhh", which accurately describes 80-95% of all YT comments. Spending time on YouTube and in traffic both help remind me of how truly shitty humanity is.
    fuck you
  • Re: Maajid Nawaz
     Reply #15 - May 17, 2010, 01:53 AM
    Yeah I know. I now look for these comment just for lulz. The best source is the Daily Mail comment section.  Afro
  • Re: Maajid Nawaz
     Reply #16 - May 17, 2010, 06:30 AM
    Quote from: Q-Man on May 16, 2010, 11:17 PM
    Question especially for the limey ex-Muslims-- you guys familiar with this dude? What do you think of him?

    I saw him on the "60 Minutes" episode couple of weeks ago:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO2FhdLvPxA

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loS-W9NoUX0&feature=related


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maajid_Nawaz




    Majid's a nice guy.
  • Re: Maajid Nawaz
     Reply #17 - May 17, 2010, 06:31 AM
    Quote from: billy on May 16, 2010, 11:24 PM
    Don't know that much about him. He's ex Hizb ut Tahrir who realised how stupid Islamism and Ummah Identity Politics were and went public with his criticisms. He's part of Ed Husain's Quillam Foundation, seen him speak a couple of times, read a couple of his comment pieces. He's still a practising Muslim, he just hates the Islamists and the Islam-as-Politics types now.




    Majid is the head of the Quliiam Foundation and a much cooler guy than Ed Hussein.
  • Re: Maajid Nawaz
     Reply #18 - May 17, 2010, 09:52 PM
    Speaking of the Quilliam Foundation, they managed to get the Home Office to fund a small university tour with the lead singer of Pakistani rock band Junoon.  This is their latest effort against extremism.

    Salman Ahmad will try to "urge Muslim students to choose an electric guitar over extremism".

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7127684.ece
    .
  • Maajid Nawaz
     Reply #19 - August 03, 2015, 05:18 PM
    Quote from: Colonel Q-Daffi on May 16, 2010, 11:17 PM
    Question especially for the limey ex-Muslims-- you guys familiar with this dude? What do you think of him?

    I saw him on the "60 Minutes" episode couple of weeks ago:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO2FhdLvPxA

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loS-W9NoUX0&feature=related


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maajid_Nawaz



     

    Maajid Nawaz: Bill Maher’s Kind of Muslim _by  the loon Garibaldi


    Quote
    Nawaz is not against extremism. He works with extremists! He supports Ayaan Hirsi Ali who has called for Islam to be crushed militarily. When he was challenged on this by us on Twitter he failed to respond. The Quilliam Foundation is directly involved with proud NeoCon interventionist and Judeo-Christianist apologist Douglas Murray. When challenged on this Quilliam and Maajid have also failed to respond.

    This coupled with his long track record of alienating the UK Muslim populace makes it clear that he is not interested in really countering Muslim extremists or their ideologies. He is still the same self-fashioned politico that he claimed he was in his Hizb ut-Tahrir days: he is still an opportunist and allied with radicals.    ....Garibaldi

    Quote
    Nawaz’s explanation that “Islamism” was merely an outgrowth of Arab Socialism, i.e. Ba’athist fascism in religious garb isn’t convincing. A serious tracing of the genealogy of ideas and intellectual history of “Islamism” shows us that these two political forces are unique and contradictory even if at times certain ideas have overlapped.

    “Islamism” is a fraught term, as it attempts to describe a disparate, diverse and geographically spread out phenomenon that is ever evolving in monolithic language. While some groups and ideologues self-describe as “Islamiyoon” (Islamists), often groups who do not are also lumped into the category of “Islamism    .  ....Garibaldi

    Do not let silence become your legacy.. Question everything   
    I renounced my faith to become a kafir, 
    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim     
  • Maajid Nawaz
     Reply #20 - August 04, 2015, 03:44 PM
    The exmuslim alliance with self-serving, self-indulgent muslimophobic mercenary fraud Maajid Nawaz can only backfire for exmuslims.
  • Maajid Nawaz
     Reply #21 - August 05, 2015, 03:45 AM
    http://www.camdennewjournal.com/Maajidstatement
    "Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well."
    - Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Maajid Nawaz
     Reply #22 - August 05, 2015, 05:56 PM
    Apart from Maajid Nawaz, who else unequivocally condemns barbaric punishments such as stoning? Obviously the "nothing to do with Islam" brigade don't care much for someone who dare say it has got something to do with Islam.

    I don't know all of Maajid Nawaz' views, but any British muslim who actually care for their own and their children's future in Britain, should choose someone like Maajid Nawaz over hypocrites such as Mehdi Hasan (non-muslims are animals, dis-belief is a disease) and Mo Ansar (slavery is fine if there is no "oppression" involved).

    I don't think people like Mehdi Hasan and Mo Ansar comprehend how muslims who just refuse to integrate and adopt humantistic principles, are fueling anti-muslim bigotry. Especially Mo Ansar seems like a bit of a clown, with his multiple twitter accounts.

    Obviously no one is infallible (least of all Mohammed), so Maajid Nawaz most likely has made plenty of mistakes himself, but at least he acknowledges the problems Islam and muslims do have, instead of burying his head in the sand and shout "nothing to do with Islam, nothing to do with Islam". Its just a mere coincidence that religious minorities are maltreated in almost every muslim country, obviously nothing to do with Islam.  Roll Eyes
  • Maajid Nawaz
     Reply #23 - August 22, 2015, 09:09 AM
    Excellent blog post in the Pakistani news paper The Nation about the recent Maajid Nawaz and Guardian debacle.

    http://nation.com.pk/blogs/16-Aug-2015/what-the-guardian-s-maajid-nawaz-sting-says-of-the-guardian-s-journalistic-ethics

    Can't believe they actually printed this paragraph, kudos to The Nation

    Quote
    For the first time, Cameron, while acknowledging that the vast majority of the Muslims of the UK were peaceful, productive citizens, addressed also the fact that Islamism (their term for Islamic extremism) is not completely independent of the religion.

  • Maajid Nawaz
     Reply #24 - August 22, 2015, 10:30 AM
    Good article.
    `But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
     `Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad.  You're mad.'
     `How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
     `You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
  • Maajid Nawaz
     Reply #25 - December 21, 2015, 06:58 AM
    I got no respect for him because i think he is a joke.
    "I'm standing here like an asshole holding my Charles Dickens"

    "No theory,No ready made system,no book that has ever been written to save the world. i cleave to no system.."-Bakunin
  • Maajid Nawaz
     Reply #26 - December 21, 2015, 08:59 AM
    Quote from: Cato on December 21, 2015, 06:58 AM
    I got no respect for him because i think he is a joke.


    Cato never changed..  never changes and never will change in future...
    Do not let silence become your legacy.. Question everything   
    I renounced my faith to become a kafir, 
    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim     
  • Maajid Nawaz
     Reply #27 - December 21, 2015, 04:38 PM
    You're getting subtle in your old age, Yeez, and vaguely comprehensible.

    (Says a Cato fan.)
  • Maajid Nawaz
     Reply #28 - December 21, 2015, 07:51 PM
    he's always so well turned out.
  • Maajid Nawaz
     Reply #29 - December 22, 2015, 02:39 AM
    I like Maajid Nawaz.
    `But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
     `Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad.  You're mad.'
     `How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
     `You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
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