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Rather than allowing jihadists to shut down debate, it must proliferate so much that they simply cannot kill us all.
Maajid Nawaz
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The truth is, 'Charlie Hebdo' is not a racist magazine. Rather, it is a campaigning anti-racist left-wing magazine.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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Non-violent extremism is essentially the increase of intolerant and bigoted demands made by groups seeking to dominate society.
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Any item of clothing that covers the face and makes it impossible to identify individuals is open to abuse.
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Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.
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The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
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The rise of ISIS in Iraq is a wider threat to the stability of the Middle East and the West than many realise.
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For my own part, once I became a teenager, I experienced severe and violent racism.
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De-radicalisation begins by breaking down the logic which once seemed unassailable and rethinking what you are fighting for and why. That is hard to do when Islamists and Islamophobes feed off each other's hateful cliches.
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During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.
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As I went between the Islamic Society in my college and university, the mosque, the halal takeaway, and visited the homes of my male Muslim friends, it was entirely possible for me to get through my day without interacting in any meaningful way with a single non-Muslim.
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