"Perhaps it is Maajid Niwas, a former member of a terrorist organization and now a Muslim reformer, who can address this issue best. Born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, to a British Pakistani family, Nawaz is a former member of the Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir. His affiliation with this group led to his arrest in Egypt in December 2001, where he remained imprisoned until 2006.
Nawas had a change of heart after reading books on human rights and interacting with Amnesty International. This led Nawaz to leave Hizb-ut-Tahrir in 2007, renounce his Islamist past and become one of Britain’s leading Muslim Reformers.
He describes this dilemma brilliantly on Facebook with the following:"
Nawas had a change of heart after reading books on human rights and interacting with Amnesty International. This led Nawaz to leave Hizb-ut-Tahrir in 2007, renounce his Islamist past and become one of Britain’s leading Muslim Reformers.
He describes this dilemma brilliantly on Facebook with the following:"
"Terrorism is about motive and method to achieve that motive. It’s legally, and politically distinct from mass murder, genocide and other heinous crimes just like pedophilia is distinct from rape. We in the U.K. called the IRA terrorists. Just as we call ISIS terrorists now. It’s not about race or hating one religion more than another.
Terrorism is a distinct category because it’s about trying to terrorize a population to alter their ideological or political course. It is deliberately and rightly distinguished from mass murder even if the latter also (obviously) scares people. I bet you’ve never argued for redefining “genocide” to call it terrorism instead just because both also “terrorize” people. Nor have you probably advocated redefining torture as terrorism, though it obviously terrorizes the victim."