{"id":5161,"date":"2008-04-23T11:03:11","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T11:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/04\/exjihadists-launch-group-to-fi.html"},"modified":"2008-04-23T11:03:11","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T11:03:11","slug":"exjihadists-launch-group-to-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/04\/exjihadists-launch-group-to-fi.html","title":{"rendered":"Ex-jihadists launch group to fight radicalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, here’s<\/a> some good news for a change:<\/p>\n

They once plotted insurrection in Britain. Young, middle-class, and angry, they were the vanguard of a generation of disaffected Muslims that, at its most extreme, gave rise to the July 7, 2005, transportation bombers.
\nBut now, in one of the most visible assaults on political Islam from within the British Muslim community, a network of ex-radicals launched on Tuesday a movement to fight the same ideology that they once worked to spread.
\nThe Quilliam Foundation \u2013 named for a 19th-century British convert to Islam \u2013 aims to propagate a tolerant and pluralistic view of Islam among young Muslims who are the most vulnerable to radicalism.
\n“We are trying to rescue our faith from those who have sadly hijacked it,” says Ed Husain, author of “The Islamist,” a book about his own radical years, and deputy director of the foundation. “There is a Western Islam in the making and it is not arrogant or extreme.”
\n[…]
\nAside from think-tank work of getting their ideas into the public domain, the foundation also plans to set up a task force of ex-radicals who can “go to the hot spots and work on the grass roots to deradicalize people and the contacts that we have known in these movements for a long time,” Mr. Nawaz says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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