Maajid Nawaz: A global culture to fight extremism
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http://www.ted.com Why do transnational extremist organizations succeed where democratic movements have a harder time taking hold? Maajid Nawaz, a former Islamist extremist, asks for new grassroots stories and global social activism to spread democracy in the face of nationalism and xenophobia. A powerful talk from TEDGlobal 2011. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate.
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I have to watch this for a class I have, and I've never felt dumber in my life.
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The point that democracy as a system gets the blame when parties that embrace it inevitably make mistakes, which then leads the populace to embrace antidemocratic alternatives, is quite profound.
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I have wondered if you could have some sort of 'subversive' species of democracy, the same way capitalism would always exist as black markets no matter how hard a government attempted to outlaw it.
Currently Im not sure how western democracy would survive the beheading of their government, say by a coup. I can imagine protests but all you should really need to do is passively ignore undemocratic government. We shouldn't have to require an authority to continually impose democracy on us, organise ballots for us and so on. Ideally it would emerge naturally from bottom up behaviour and if any coup or other attack attempted to behead this democratic government, a new government would instantly appear, hydra-like..
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Read this article on Maajid Nawaz. His own ex-wife, brother, and other were interviewed. It is confirmed that Maajid Nawaz soldout and became a paid informant to the British Government.
http://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/self-invention-maajid-nawaz-fact-and-fiction-life-counter-terror-celebrity -
Truly inspirational stuff that I couldn't agree more with. And incredibly poignant with regards to what has happened since this talk in 2011. Maajid Nawaz I take my proverbial hat off to you!
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ALL I HEARD.."JIHADI JIHAD DERKA DERKA I BOMB AMERICA"
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Excellent and thought-provoking. God bless you, Maajid.
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Maajid Nawaz is a LibDem. Thats the party here in the UK who just went along with the ideological austerity of the Independent Living Fund for the disabled. It is the party that said and did nothing while David Cameron toured the Middle East during the Arab Spring, selling arms to brutal, despotic regimes such as Saudi Arabia. Their new leader is a Christian who is homophobic and anti-abortion- yet Nawaz has not raised an objection to this.
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you are my hero Maajid
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Maajid Nawaz always talks sense, nothing controversial at all in what he's saying. Politics and religion should remain separate. Groups supporting democratic values need to be encouraged.
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nothing like a uncle tom on stage
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We muslim need 1,000 more reformist like Maajid Nawaz!
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I heard a true enemy of Islam and Muslims speak first time in my life. The damage this man can do to Muslims and Islam is beyond what FBI CIA MOSSAD can do.
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I think the current state of the transnational Islamist movements and the late 19th and early 20th century Communist movements would have been a more apt comparison with the big difference of the current state of technology and easy of travel that did not exist in the late and early 19th/20th century.
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these nutjob wannabe Muslims are so mad because they know Maajid speaks the truth.
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Coming from a virulent anti theist - God/Allah/Krishna, whatever.... bless this man!
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That was very well done! Thank you Maajid Nawaz! I hope to see a big change in the next few decades in the Middle East!
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yah lets talk about freedom of speech and then lets talk about how to ''force'' democracy on others. Bloody idiot.