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Radical
- My Journey from Islamist Extremism to a Democratic Awakening
- Narrated by: Maajid Nawaz
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
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Born and raised in Essex, Maajid Nawaz was recruited into politicised Islam as a teenager. 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. While studying for his Arabic and law degree, he travelled around the UK and to Denmark and Pakistan, setting up new cells.
He arrived in Egypt the day before 9/11, where his views soon led to his arrest, imprisonment and mental torture before he was thrown into solitary confinement in a Cairo jail reserved for political prisoners. 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. This move would cost him his marriage, his family and his friends as well as his own personal security.
Six years after his release, Maajid now works all over the world to counter Islamism and to promote democratic ideals through his organisation, The Quilliam Foundation, which he cofounded with former Islamist and best-selling author Ed Husain.
Following in the wake of the extraordinary democratic change in the Arab world that few would have foretold, Radical is Maajid's intensely personal account of life inside and out of Islamic extremism. It also highlights one man's quest to inspire change and challenge extremism in all its forms. This is a hard-hitting memoir of one man's journey into and out of Islamic extremism.
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- Amazon Customer
- 13-04-17
Radical
Well read but not very convinced by the book. Doesn't come across as sincere or truthful.
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- S_Kam
- 17-12-18
Inside info into Islamic world
I am Hindu and a British Indian. Naturally the view of Muslim and Pakistani is very stereotypical. This book helped to understand several misconceptions. The way Majid went from the transition from being a b boy to Islamist to a secular is very effective. I wish him all the bests in his new mission. In fact I would like to meet and talk to him. Thanks.
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- Jozef
- 29-06-18
An insightful book of high quality.
I greatly enjoyed this book. I have been a follower of Nawaz for several years now as the power of ideology and the effects it can impose upon society and the individual have always been an interest of mine. Whether you are left wing, right wing, support Brexit or Trump's immigration policy, it does not matter. One does not need to apply their political opinion to this book. They just simply need to read (or listen) to the story of a man whose extremist ideology sent him on a path of near self-destruction that would later shape his future. It was a very powerful read that does not support extremist ideology but shows how certain aspects of society, along with powerful religious and political ideology, can provide credence to these dangerous ways of thinking. Furthermore, Nawaz discusses his transition from his Islamist way of thinking to support Liberal Democratic values that gives rise to the argument that radicalised members of society can be deradicalised through appropriate discourse, using himself as an example. Not only does he discuss the struggles he faced from his former peers and Islamists. He discusses the tole that this journey took on his personal life also. His relationship with his then-wife, friends, family and himself. Nawaz discusses the torture he endured in an Egyptian prison yet the pain of this, for me, does not seem to equate to the emotional and mental trauma Nawaz must have endured as he progressed from an Islamist to a liberal democrat. As crucial and positive this change was, the process of losing one's sense of identity can be very difficult to endure and a path that I wish Nawaz did not have to endure, at least not in the way he did, to become a liberal. Then again, it has proven to be for the best so who am I to argue or wish otherwise?
I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in understanding why Islamists and Jihadists think the think the way that they do. I would also recommend his book that he co-authored with Sam Harris 'Islam and the Future of Tolerance' as a good follow up to Radical as it draws upon aspects of the latter for key discussion.
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- Adam Datoo
- 25-11-17
This story touched my heart
As an Asian male, who grew up on the edge of London in the 70s & 80s, I could relate to so much of this. With an Asian Muslim father, I too experienced some of the racism described. But with a White Christian mother, my paler looking sisters had it from the other side. We learned balance from an early age. Lessons it took Maajid decades to work through.
God bless you Maajid. In my view you have more than made up for the damage you caused in your youth. You are an example to anyone who tries to make the world a better place.
Adam
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- Mr. R. D. Cox
- 29-05-20
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What an incredible story. A Southend lad, radicalised by racism, now changing the world for the better.
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- Aisling
- 11-09-17
Powerful story, powerfully told
This Is a great book. I have always been baffled as to the logic behind radical Islam and islamic terrorist attacks. in fact any religion can be subverted and used to justify the unpardonible, but that's another story! This gives us an absorbing insight into that whole world and into the world of the normal, decent muslems.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-10-19
gripping and enlightening autobiography
definitely worth listening to for a recap on Blair Bush era Middle East policies and interventions. Narwaz approaches his story from very interesting moral, legal, religious, political and philosophical viewpoints.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-01-24
Powerful
I love how Maajid goes on a journey and completely flips his indoctrination on its head.
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- gearoid amazon
- 16-04-20
Tá scéal spéisiúil agus tábhactach le hinsint aige
Bhí sé spéisiúil, greannmhar, agus mothúchánach.
Chruthaigh an t-údar insint faoin mbaol sceimhlitheoireachta ó 9/11 síos go buachaill beag i Essex
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- Panesai1
- 11-04-17
Truly inspiring
A superb book. Couldn't stop listening. An inspiring story with many ups and downs in his life...
The world needs more people like Maajid Nawaz.
Keep up the good work!
Looking forward to his next book... am sure it will be a cracker too!
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