This piece is propaganda, and not very good propaganda at that. Be nice to Muslims and ISIS will fall apart?
Is there a single instance where a Western government hasn’t cow-towed and cowered before Islam and avoided having their citizens killed and their nations threatened? Hardly. In fact, the OPPOSITE is true — the…
Ed Husain’s memoir, The Islamist, runs in a similar vein and gives an intriguing insight into the recruitment process of different Islamist groups. I would definitely recommend it; not only does it contain lots of useful information for understanding the inner workings of the Islamist movement, it is also a gripping and exciting read.
I would recommend that you look into Maajid Nawaz’s memoir Radical. As a former Islamist, he describes how he became radicalized in his youth and how he became disillusioned when jailed in Egypt in the early 2000s. He’s now a passionate advocate of democratic culture and has founded a counter-extremist think tank, the Quilliam Foundation. He has a…