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Maajid Nawaz - Chairman of Quilliam, counter extremisim organisation

Stephen Sackur talks to Maajid Nawaz, a former radical Islamist who, after imprisonment in Egypt, renounced his former views and launched a campaign to counter Islamist ideology.

Maajid Nawaz is a British born Muslim who became a radical Islamist.

He was arrested and imprisoned in Hosni Mubarak's Egypt but when he emerged from prison he renounced his former views and launched a campaign to counter Islamist ideology.

To some he's a truth teller, to others a traitor.

Stephen Sackur asks him to explain his extraordinary transformation.

23 minutes

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Tue 28 Aug 2012 01:05GMT
成人快手 World Service Online

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