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" After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for. "
Maajid Nawaz
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" I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became. "
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" If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense. "
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" By the age of 24, I found myself convicted in prison in Egypt, being blacklisted from three countries in the world for attempting to overthrow their governments, being subjected to torture in Egyptian jails, and sentenced to five years as a prisoner of conscience. "
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" I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace. "
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