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Author and Former Islamist - Ed Husain

Author and Former Islamist - Ed Husain

The Interview vor 8 Jahren

British writer Ed Husain on why moderate Muslims need to reclaim their religion

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Zeinab Badawi speaks to the British writer and commentator Ed
Husain, who believes the gulf between Islam and the West is
widening and that westerners see the religion as something to be
feared rather than understood. He spent several years as a
radical Islamist and then turned his back on jihadism and has
written about his own personal journey as well as trying to
explain why people join extremist groups. Now he is calling on
moderate Muslims to reclaim their religion from the extremists.
But is he oversimplifying a complex issue and playing into the
hands of Islamaphobes?

(Photo: Ed Husain in the Hardtalk studio)