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I find that browsing youtube videos has become a regular practice for me throughout the week. It's difficult not to spend a great deal of time there, there is just so much accessible media right at your fingertips. Through watching videos there that were somehow related to him, I recently discovered someone who interested me greatly. Maajid Nawaz is a former Islamist radical who now speaks out against extremism; he is the co-founder of the Quillium Foundation http://www.quilliamfoundation.org/about/staff/ a counter extremism think tank based in London. Maajid speaks from experience and with great clarity about what he defines as Islamism, Muslim extremism; as opposed to Islam, the Islamic religion, which is a crucial distinction he says. They seek to create a counter narrative amongst Muslim youth world-wide; that to oppose the extremist narrative which he further defines as an imposition of old European Fascism onto the Islamic religion. To me he is a fresh voice who provides great insight into issues that beg for clarification, and also need brave people like Nawaz to speak out about their experiences and against the extremism they once embraced. Find out more about him here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maajid_Nawaz . Here is a video clip of Maajid Nawaz speaking at a forum in 2013