Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
From Maajid Nawaz
Preying on the grievances of disaffected young men is the bedrock of Islamism.
After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.
I really didn't grow up religious, and I didn't grow up acknowledging my Muslim identity. For me, I was a British Pakistani.
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.
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.
Expressing myself through language was always something that I had had to learn to do more so than others.
I used to MC a bit when I was young - 14 or 15 years old.
What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.
What's my audience? British society. Am I received relatively well? Yes. Is there within that... if you break it down, challenges with Muslim communities? Of course there are.
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