{"id":527,"date":"2013-07-01T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T10:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/07\/how-does-an-islamist-extremist-change-his-mind.html"},"modified":"2014-07-29T07:31:51","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T12:31:51","slug":"how-does-an-islamist-extremist-change-his-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/07\/how-does-an-islamist-extremist-change-his-mind.html","title":{"rendered":"How Does An Islamist Extremist Change His Mind?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/maajid_nawaz_a_global_culture_to_fight_extremism.html\" width=\"460\" height=\"256\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Maajid Nawaz used to recruit young Muslims to an extremist Islamist group and served five years in an Egyptian prison. He underwent a transformation and began advocating for democracy. \u00a0In the TedTalk above he explains that transformation and discusses the circumstances that create \u00a0extremist groups. \u00a0You can also listen to an NPR \u00a0interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/06\/28\/195238189\/how-does-an-islamist-extremist-change-his-mind\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Nawaz here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maajid Nawaz used to recruit young Muslims to an extremist Islamist group and served five years in an Egyptian prison. He underwent a transformation and began advocating for democracy. \u00a0In the TedTalk above he explains that transformation and discusses the circumstances that create \u00a0extremist groups. \u00a0You can also listen to an NPR \u00a0interview with Nawaz [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"featured_media":4709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How Does An Islamist Extremist Change His Mind?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Maajid Nawaz used to recruit young Muslims to an extremist Islamist group and served five years in an Egyptian prison. 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