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In reply to the discussion: SPLC Disgraces Itself on Ayaan Hirsi Ali [View all]struggle4progress
(119,505 posts)BY NATHAN LEAN
January 27, 2016
... hes ingratiated himself in the growing union of neoconservatives and hawkish liberals who believe in Western exceptionalism and the efficacy of power, especially military power, to expand its influence and protect its interests. He has found in them an opportunity to expand his platform, and they, in him, a veneer that deflects accusations of Islamophobia and Western triumphalism by fixating not on Islam per se but on the alleged threat posed by its foreign ism affix: Islamism ...
Buried beneath the adulation .. are the sighs of those who have long maintained that Nawazs dramatic tale of redemption isnt all that its cracked up to be. Interviews with his friends and relatives suggest that his account is riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuraciesindications, they say, of a turncoat who cares more about being a well-compensated hero than he does about the cause he champions ...
Ashraf Hoque, a friend from Nawazs college days, is more blunt.
He is neither an Islamist nor a liberal, he said. Maajid is whatever he thinks he needs to be ...
https://newrepublic.com/article/128436/maajid-nawaz-really-believe