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Preying on the grievances of disaffected young men is the bedrock of Islamism.

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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.

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The only way we can challenge Islamism is to engage with one another. We need to make it as abhorrent as racism has become today. Only then will we stem the tide of angry young Muslims who turn to hate.

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In Bosnia, the case was there were white, blond-haired, blue-eyed Muslims who were being slaughtered and identified as Muslims. That really touched me.

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I really didn't grow up religious, and I didn't grow up acknowledging my Muslim identity. For me, I was a British Pakistani.

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Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.

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I was in prison with pretty much the who's who of the jihadist and Islamist scene of Egypt at the time, and Egypt was the cradle of Islamism for the world - it's where it began and where jihadism began as well.

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Expressing myself through language was always something that I had had to learn to do more so than others.

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I used to MC a bit when I was young - 14 or 15 years old.

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What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Activist

Born: Unknown

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