One of the problems we're facing is, in my view, that there are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies.
From Maajid Nawaz
The positive is I'm delighted at the way the Liberal Democrats as a party have supported me and the way in which the work I'm doing, through the Liberal Democrats, has abled to broaden some of the work I work on.
Before someone can change his ideas, he has to open his heart.
As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.
Satire has been a sanctuary historically monopolized by progressives, originally used as a discreet tool against Western religious fundamentalism.
If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.
Dogma not only blinds its protagonist, but it muzzles all other opposition.
For my own part, once I became a teenager, I experienced severe and violent racism.
Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.
Liberalism will beat totalitarianism by killing it softly, not by mimicking it.
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