Ex-Jihadis Form Foundation for Tolerance -Mark Rice-Oxley
They once plotted insurrection in Britain. Young, middle-class, and angry, they were the vanguard of a generation of disaffected Muslims that gave rise to the July 7, 2005 bombers.
But now, in one of the most visible assaults on political Islam, a network of ex-radicals launched a movement to fight the same ideology that they once worked to spread. The Quilliam Foundation aims to propagate a tolerant and pluralistic view of Islam.
"The ideology of Islamism has sadly become the default for political discourse among young British Muslims," says the foundation's director, Maajid Nawaz [pictured above], a former radical.
(Christian Science Monitor)
They once plotted insurrection in Britain. Young, middle-class, and angry, they were the vanguard of a generation of disaffected Muslims that gave rise to the July 7, 2005 bombers.
But now, in one of the most visible assaults on political Islam, a network of ex-radicals launched a movement to fight the same ideology that they once worked to spread. The Quilliam Foundation aims to propagate a tolerant and pluralistic view of Islam.
"The ideology of Islamism has sadly become the default for political discourse among young British Muslims," says the foundation's director, Maajid Nawaz [pictured above], a former radical.
(Christian Science Monitor)
2 comments:
If you look at history (the Crusades, Inquisition, Martin Luther), it took a long time for the Christians to become somewhat tolerant of other religions. Hopefully, things will move quicker for Islam.
Quicker indeed...hopefully assisted by a world growing increasing frustrated with the outcomes.
There are nacient groups of moderates...but there are also groups posturing as moderate for PR purposes, but with a radical core [like CAIR, for instance]. The need to encouage real moderation goes without saying.
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