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An insightful account of 1 man's drastic advancement from spiritual fervor to enlightened serenity. Maajid Nawaz put in his teenage years hearing North american hip-hop and studying the radical Islamist activity spreading throughout Europe and Asia in the 1980s and '90s. At 16, he was already a standing 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 establishing satellite communities in Pakistan, Denmark, and Egypt when he was rounded up in the aftermath of 9/11 along with a great many other radical Muslims. He was delivered to an Egyptian prison where he was, fortuitously, jailed along with the assassins of Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat. Twenty years in prison possessed transformed the assassins' views on Islam and assault; Maajid went into prison preaching to them about the Islamist cause, however the lessons ended up heading the other way. He arrived of prison four years later completely transformed, persuaded that his entire belief system had been wrong and driven to do something positive about it. He achieved with activists and mind of point out, built a network, and started a base, Quilliam, to overcome the increasing Islamist tide in Europe and in other places, using his seductive understanding of recruitment tactics to be able to reverse extremism and persuade Muslims that the narrative used to recruit them - that the West is evil and the cause of all Muslim anguish - is incorrect. Radical is a remarkable and important consider one man's journey out of extremism and into something else entirely.
