19 Facts About Maajid Nawaaz

Maajid Nawaaz left Hizb-ut-Tahrir in 2007, renounced his Islamist past, and called for a "secular Islam".

Maajid Nawaaz was the Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for London's Hampstead and Kilburn constituency in the 2015 general election.

Maajid Nawaaz's father, Mo, is an electrical engineer who had worked for the Pakistan Navy but had to leave on medical grounds after he contracted tuberculosis.

Maajid Nawaaz became a national speaker and an international recruiter for Hizb ut-Tahrir, travelling to Pakistan and Denmark to further the party's ideology and set up organisational cells.

Maajid Nawaaz was then transferred to Tora Prison and put on trial.

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Maajid Nawaaz met Islamist Dr Essam el-Erian, the spokesman of the Muslim Brotherhood, and Mohammed Badie, who in his youth had smuggled the manuscripts of Syed Qutb's Islamist manual Milestones out of prison, and had it published.

Maajid Nawaaz specialised in the Arabic language whilst studying historical Muslim scholastics, sources of Islamic jurisprudence, Hadith historiography and the art of Qur'anic recitation.

Maajid Nawaaz benefited from the company of imprisoned Egyptian politician Ayman Nour who was the head of the centre-liberal Tomorrow Party and a runner-up to the 2005 Presidential Elections.

Maajid Nawaaz then founded the Quilliam Foundation, a counter-extremism think tank.

Maajid Nawaaz addressed the US Senate's Homeland Security Committee on the subject of Islamist extremism.

Maajid Nawaaz spoke at the "Sovereign Challenge" conference organised by United States Special Operations Command where he advocated the need to move beyond hard power, and look at new counter-radicalisation strategies.

Maajid Nawaaz met Robinson in 2013 during the filming of a BBC documentary When Tommy met Mo, and subsequently met the EDL's co-leader, Kevin Carroll.

Maajid Nawaaz has argued that multiculturalism has failed ethnic minorities by not promoting integration, inhibiting social mobility in employment and gender inequality in Muslim communities, and has encouraged bigotry of low expectations.

Maajid Nawaaz accused the party of "whitewashing" history over British colonialism to make Scotland appear as if it was colonized by England and played no role in the building of the British Empire.

Maajid Nawaaz claimed that political liberals had been hypocritical in their criticisms of Trump compared to previous presidents.

Maajid Nawaaz opposes Hamas, which he considers a terrorist organisation.

Maajid Nawaaz has opined that opposition to Israel is “the mother of all virtue-signals.

Maajid Nawaaz argues that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is out to provoke a Clash of Civilisations, and we can avoid this clash by calling out the underlying Islamist ideology and isolating Jihadists from ordinary Muslims.

Maajid Nawaaz took exception to Pope Francis's characterisation of the Paris attacks as the start of "World War 3", noting that we are not facing another World War but a Global Jihadist insurgency.