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HARDtalk: Author and Former Islamist - Ed Husain

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Ed Husain - Author and Former Islamist

30/05/2018 GMT

Author and Former Islamist - Ed Husain

BBC World Service - HARDtalk, Author and Former Islamist - Ed Husain

British writer Ed Husain on why moderate Muslims need to reclaim their religion

Is calling on moderate Muslims to reclaim their religion from the extremists - oversimplifying a complex issue and playing into the hands of Islamaphobes?

Zeinab Badawi speaks to the British writer and commentator Ed Husain, who believes the gulf between Islam and the West is widening and that westerners see the religion as something to be feared rather than understood. He spent several years as a radical Islamist and then turned his back on jihadism and has written about his own personal journey as well as trying to explain why people join extremist groups.  Now he is calling on moderate Muslims to reclaim their religion from the extremists. But is he oversimplifying a complex issue and playing into the hands of Islamaphobes?

(Photo: Ed Husain in the Hardtalk studio)

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