Hendrix College? Maajid Nawaz 60 Minutes Video Quotes Analysis Paper

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Today, I want to introduce you to a man named Maajid Nawaz. He was a radical Muslim who was eventually sent to prison. While in prison, he views about Islam were changed by inmates who had been in prison for their radical views.

Now Maajid Nawaz travels the world arguing against the radical beliefs he used to celebrate.

Watch the 60 Minutes video about Maajid Nawaz's work (if you can't find my link, it is available on YouTube). Then, select ANY THREE of his quotations that you liked and EXPLAIN why you liked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r37K7ogJfIU

So, watch the video, read the quotes, select THREE you agree with, and make sure to EXPLAIN why you liked those particular quotes.

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Maajid Nawaz Quotes “One does not need to be brown to discuss racism, one does not need to be Muslim to discuss Islam. Ideas have no color, or country. Good ideas are truly universal. Any attempt to police ideas, to quarantine thought based on race or religion, and to pre-define what is and what isn’t a legitimate conversation, must be resisted by all.” “We can’t remain silent on gender rights and personal freedoms.” “No idea is above scrutiny and no people are beneath dignity.” “As he continued to talk to me, I realized one of the fundamental points about Islamism that so many people fail to understand. The way Osman was speaking wasn’t in the orthodox, religious way of the imam with a stick; he was talking about politics, about events that were happening now. That’s crucial to understanding what Islamism is all about: it isn’t a religious movement with political consequences, it is a political movement with religious consequences.” “We’re currently faced with two entirely different challenges – facing down Islamism and jihadism on the one hand, and advancing human rights and democratic culture on the other.” “Unlike the student protests in the 1960s, by using religion and multiculturalism as a cover, we brought an entirely foreign lexicon to the table. We knowingly presented political demands disguised as religion and multiculturalism, and deliberately labelled any objection to our demands as racism and bigotry. Even worse, we did this to the very generation who had been socialist sympathizers in their youth, people sympathetic to charges of racism, who were now in middle-career management posts; people like Dave Gomer. It is no wonder then that the authorities were unprepared to deal with politicized religion as ideological agitation, and felt racist if they tried to stop us.” “The fact that my skin color hadn’t been an issue for those early years of schooling says everything about where racism originates: it is a cultural issue, a societal and familial problem that children soak up as they become more aware of the world.” “There are those out there who harbor an irrational fear of Islam. Islamophobes and Islamists have this much in common: both groups insist that Islam is a totalitarian political ideology at odds with liberal democracy, and hence both insist that the two will inevitably clash. One extreme calls for the Qur’an to be banned, the other calls to ban everything but the Qur’an. Together, they form the negative and the positive of a bomb fuse.” “I’d argue, in fact, that the rise of the so-called Islamic State under Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi does somewhat vindicate Osama bin Laden’s strategy and his belief that making the West intervention-weary through war would lead to a power vacuum in the Middle East and that the West would abandon its support for Arab despots, which would lead to the crumbling of despotic regimes. From the ashes of that would rise an Islamic State. Bin Laden said this eleven years ago, and it’s uncanny how the Arab uprisings have turned out.” “Is not winning the war more important than truth? This maxim, I knew, was also subscribed to by some on the left, the regressive left. For them, winning against capitalism was far more important than it was to their allies. I watched as our ideology gained acceptance and we were granted airtime as Muslim political commentators. I watched as we were ignorantly pandered to by well-meaning liberals and ideologically driven leftists. How we Islamists laughed at their naïveté.” “Between anti-Muslim bigotry & Muslim supremacism, there is a field. Meet me there.” “Islam is a religion, and like any other faith, it is internally diverse. Islamism, by contrast, is the desire to impose a single version of Islam on an entire society. Islamism is not Islam, but it is an offshoot of Islam. It is Muslim theocracy. In much the same way, jihad is a traditional Muslim idea connoting struggle—sometimes a personal spiritual struggle, sometimes a struggle against an external enemy. Jihadism, however, is something else entirely: It is the doctrine of using force to spread Islamism.”
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Quotes: Maajid Nawaz

One does not need to be brown to discuss racism, one does not need to be Muslim to discuss
Islam. Ideas have no color, or country. Good ideas are truly universal. Any attempt to police
ideas, to quarantine thought based on race or religion, and to pre-define wh...


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