No idea is above scrutiny and no people are beneath dignity.


Maajid Nawaz

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In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.
MAAJID NAWAZ
Elvis 30 No. 1 Hits
NO DOUBT
It must be an odd person indeed that can say for certain they are normal.
INITIALLY NO
Take this drink as a token of
my disrepute and spin that hay tonight and tomorrow it will be sh...
INITIALLY NO
Take this drink as a token of my disrepute and spin that hay tonight and tomorrow it will be shining...
INITIALLY NO
It's nice to finish with a great shot like that. It was a nice way to finish up. It looked pretty go...
DONALD NO
I was struggling on the greens (early on the back nine) and had lost a little bit of confidence and ...
DONALD NO
They tell me to be quiet
When I’d rather cause a riot
And have everyone screaming
O...
INITIALLY NO
We had no doubt that they were guilty.
JUROR NO
We did the right thing for Mary. It was not an easy decision, and it was not unanimous at first.
JUROR NO
Before, I said I could be fair, but I don't think I can.
JUROR NO
We actually challenged one another in the deliberation room. We challenged the issues, and we came t...
JUROR NO
I saw two birds having dangerously kinky sex on the main road, while several cars ran above them jus...
INITIALLY NO
I have no idea. I don't know,
ROBERT MORGAN
If I wasn't doing this, I have no idea what I'd be doing.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
I had no idea what Emanuel had done.
JEFFREY BUTTLE
I have no idea.
RICKY WILLIAMS
We didn't have any idea of what was going on. We had no idea.
JAMES COOK
No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is...
BERNARD BARTON
No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one va...
BRUCE BARTON
We are defined by our dignity to rise above debasement. We are certainly better people for doing so.
COREY TAYLOR
I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
MAAJID NAWAZ
The positive is I'm delighted at the way the Liberal Democrats as a party have supported me and ...
MAAJID NAWAZ
In Bosnia, the case was there were white, blond-haired, blue-eyed Muslims who were being slaughtered...
MAAJID NAWAZ
Poking fun at other people's beliefs, while it may seem frivolous and offensive, is a non-negoti...
MAAJID NAWAZ
We cannot hope to effectively counter extremism if we just focus on schools, universities and prison...
MAAJID NAWAZ
Liberalism will beat totalitarianism by killing it softly, not by mimicking it.
MAAJID NAWAZ
Satire has been a sanctuary historically monopolized by progressives, originally used as a discreet ...
MAAJID NAWAZ
Before someone can change his ideas, he has to open his heart.
MAAJID NAWAZ
The only way we can challenge Islamism is to engage with one another. We need to make it as abhorren...
MAAJID NAWAZ
Dogma not only blinds its protagonist, but it muzzles all other opposition.
MAAJID NAWAZ
Broader social concerns within Muslim communities, such as discrimination, integration or socio-econ...
MAAJID NAWAZ
The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend ...
MAAJID NAWAZ
As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out in...
MAAJID NAWAZ
In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to de...
MAAJID NAWAZ
If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissent...
MAAJID NAWAZ
Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make ...
MAAJID NAWAZ
'Muslim' is not a political party. 'Muslim' is not a single culture. Muslims go to w...
MAAJID NAWAZ
Having our fundamental assumptions about life challenged is never a comfortable thing.
MAAJID NAWAZ
My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the ...
MAAJID NAWAZ
The only certainty we have is that those who are certain of a way to arrive at worldly salvation, ar...
MAAJID NAWAZ
I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-T...
MAAJID NAWAZ
I was filled with hate and anger. But during my trial, something decisive happened: Amnesty Internat...
MAAJID NAWAZ
Wherever I've been, I've left people who joined Hizb ut-Tahrir. I have to make amends. What ...
MAAJID NAWAZ
Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.
MAAJID NAWAZ
One of the problems we're facing is, in my view, that there are no globalized, youth-led, grassr...
MAAJID NAWAZ
A fatwa is a religious edict. Such edicts bind only those who seek to follow the Imam issuing them b...
MAAJID NAWAZ
I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in ...
MAAJID NAWAZ
My identity comprises of more than just my faith. I am a proud Muslim, but I am also a liberal, a Br...
MAAJID NAWAZ
The great liberal betrayal of this generation is that in the name of liberalism, communal rights hav...
MAAJID NAWAZ
The truth is that just as the 'West' is not a homogenous entity with one view on foreign and...
MAAJID NAWAZ
Non-violent extremism is essentially the increase of intolerant and bigoted demands made by groups s...
MAAJID NAWAZ
I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my backgr...
MAAJID NAWAZ
In the United Kingdom, we need to promote an inclusive British identity that involves and empowers p...
MAAJID NAWAZ
Neoconservatism had the philosophy that you go in with a supply-led approach to impose democratic va...
MAAJID NAWAZ
For years, Islamists and other extremists have taken advantage of grievances of Muslims in Britain a...
MAAJID NAWAZ
De-radicalisation begins by breaking down the logic which once seemed unassailable and rethinking wh...
MAAJID NAWAZ
If our hard-earned liberty, our desire to be irreverent of the old and to question the new, can be r...
MAAJID NAWAZ
Imams must ridicule Caliphate fantasies. Exchange programmes between Muslim-only schools and non-Mus...
MAAJID NAWAZ
By the age of 24, I found myself convicted in prison in Egypt, being blacklisted from three countrie...
MAAJID NAWAZ
In today's Britain, the weakest among us are often assumed to be minority communities. In fact, ...
MAAJID NAWAZ
As I went between the Islamic Society in my college and university, the mosque, the halal takeaway, ...
MAAJID NAWAZ
The only way that we can win over potential jihadists to liberal democracy is by winning the battle ...
MAAJID NAWAZ
Now I think that a true liberal will always prioritize individuals over the group, will always prior...
MAAJID NAWAZ
Rather than allowing jihadists to shut down debate, it must proliferate so much that they simply can...
MAAJID NAWAZ
Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these publ...
MAAJID NAWAZ
I was imprisoned in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks, when Egypt's state security ...
MAAJID NAWAZ
I was born and raised in Essex, just outside London, to a financially comfortable, well-educated Pak...
MAAJID NAWAZ
Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.
MAAJID NAWAZ
Muslim communities themselves, as they expect mainstream society to stand down racists, must do more...
MAAJID NAWAZ
There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture ac...
MAAJID NAWAZ
Islam will be what Muslims make of it. And it is the sum total of the interpretation that Muslims gi...
MAAJID NAWAZ
I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both fee...
MAAJID NAWAZ
No directions came with this idea.
WILLIAM MAXWELL
I had no idea it was coming,
PAUL COFFEY
I just heaved it. I had no idea where it was going.
BILLY MILNE
I really have no idea what they're doing because I've only been here for a week,
DAVID STEWART
We have no idea who's DNA that was.
DANIEL HEMPEY
I have no idea. Our protocol is the same as it's always been: Bernie and I, at the end of the season...
ED TAPSCOTT
No one should be above his country and people.
MARIANA FULGER
You wanna know people are held accountable if they engage in misconduct and that no one is above the...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN
No man is above the law, and no man is below it.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Such a government would face no scrutiny in Parliament and there's no guarantee political reform wou...
ABHISIT VEJJAJIVA
Money buys everything, if there is no dignity.
MARIANA FULGER
The person who says it is lonely at the top has no idea what the view looks like from above. ~ Aarus...
KIRTIDA GAUTAM
The person who said that it is lonely at top has no idea what the view looks like from above. ~ Aaru...
KIRTIDA GAUTAM
I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL
The sky hides the night behind it, and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above.
PAUL BOWLES
They deserve no respect those who do not respect their peers. No tolerance those who violate the dig...
MARIANA FULGER
There is no accord yet, only an idea.
CELSO AMORIM
I had no idea it would be as painful as it was, ... It really stung.
STEVE CARELL
I've never seen anything like it. I had no idea it could be that bad. I wasn't sure why he didn't wa...
DAN REEVES
We're down to those we have no idea on. The ones that only DNA will get.
CHUCK SMITH
I had no idea that there are 2,350 verses on this subject.
GREG ROMANO
I'm very surprised, very much. I had no idea about the quantity.
WES SMITH
There's no good idea that can't be improved on.
MICHAEL EISNER
You have no idea how expensive it is to look this cheap.
STEVE TYLER
It's nothing like on TV, ... On the way down there we knew we had no idea what it was going to be li...
CHRIS WHITE
I'd like to have that option now. Hindsight is 20-20, and we had no idea what was going to transpire...
JOHN FOX
It's never going to be the same as Wakefield, ... But who knows? I have no idea if it helps or not. ...
DON MATTINGLY

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One of the problems we're facing is, in my view, that there are no globalized, youth-led, grassr...
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A fatwa is a religious edict. Such edicts bind only those who seek to follow the Imam issuing them b...
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I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in ...
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The truth is that just as the 'West' is not a homogenous entity with one view on foreign and...
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