Maajid Nawaz(Former Islamist) Speaks At 911 Memorial Preview

No Mosques At Ground Zero ^ | June 8, 2011 | P. Hall

[OddLane]

On April 28, 2011 ( at 6:30PM) “9/11, Today and Tomorrow” Speakers Series at the 9/11 Memorial Preview Site invited Maajid Nawaz, an ex-member of an Islamist extremist group, to detail his personal experience with the Islamic radicalization process and to explain how he works to confront it.

This presentation in the speakers series was called, "The Front Lines of Counter Terrorism: Confronting Islamist Extremist Propaganda."

Maajid Nawaz is a former a high-ranking member of the Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir and spent four years in an Egyptian prison for his affiliation with the group. He emerged to help establish the Quillium Foundation, the world’s first counter-extremism think tank, where he serves as executive director.

He is also the founder of Khudi, a counter-extremism social movement working to promote a democratic culture in Pakistan.

There are some who feel that Nawaz is NOT what he appears to be.

[OddLane]

Here is his 2008 testimony before Senator Lieberman’s Homeland Security Committee (this is an 8 page pdf) . It would seem that even though his advocacy of a purely personal Islam devoid of all political “Islamism” is good, on the other hand, his representations about Shariah in the Lieberman testimony and about Islam (etc) are all (pretty much without exception) not factually based; including his assertions about the Shariah State.

Nawaz speaks for 38 minutes and the Q and A is approx 18 minutes.

[PieterCasparzen]

Proverbs 12:

5 The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.

6 The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

7 The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.