Biography

Maajid Nawaz is a British liberal activist and author of Pakistani origin. He is a former member of Hizb ut Tahrir who spent four years in Egyptian prison for this association. The prison experience changed his mind and he renounced the ideology of Islamism. He now campaigns for liberalism, secularism and human rights. He also ran for the Parliament in 2015 UK General Elections as a candidate of Liberal Democrats.

Nawaz graduated from University of London with a degree in Law and Arabic, and did his Masters degree in Political Theory from London School of Economics. He is the founding chairman of Quilliam think tank and a regular contributor to international publications.
- IMDb mini biography by: Aneeq

In today's Britain, the weakest among us are often assumed to be minority communities. In fact, the weakest are those minorities-within-minorities for whom the legal right to exit from their communities' constraints amounts to nothing before the enforcement of cultural and religious shaming.

The leap from being an ordinary British teenager to joining the Islamic State is huge. But it is a much smaller step for someone raised in a climate in which dreams of resurrecting a caliphate and enforcing a distorted form of Islam are normalized.