Maajid Nawaz: Culture

Maajid Nawaz is British activist. Explore interesting quotes on culture.

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“There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. There is no equivalent of Al-Qaeda without the terrorism.”

Maajid Nawaz

A global culture to fight extremism - Maajid Nawaz | TED-Ed https://www.ted.com/talks/maajid_nawaz_a_global_culture_to_fight_extremism (July 2011)

Youth

“A certain neoorientalism has crept upon us, partly in reaction to the failed militarism of the neo-conservative years, but mainly attributable to historical self-critical attitudes towards the British Empire. This neo-orientalism interprets liberalism as a Western construct ill-fitting to non-Western cultures. Struggling, dissenting liberals within minority community contexts find that they have no greater enemy than these neo-orientalists who lend credence to the idea that they are somehow an inauthentic expression of their ‘native’ culture.”

Maajid Nawaz

Source: On Blasphemy (2015), p. 1

Communication , Idea

“In today’s Britain, the weakest among us are often assumed to be minority communities. In fact, the weakest among us 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.”

Maajid Nawaz

Source: On Blasphemy (2015), p. 2

Communication