An interview with Ed Husain
Author: Mark Erbel
In the first of many interviews and conversations to come and be posted here as podcasts, Dr Catherine Fieschi and Mark Erbel of Counterpoint sit down with Ed Husain to talk among others about Islamism, British identity, counter- and de-radicalisation in the UK and beyond.
Ed Husain, co-director and co-founder of Quilliam, is the celebrated author of ‘The Islamist’, shortlisted for the George Orwell Prize for best political writing. Formerly an activist of Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) and Jamat-e-Islam front organizations in the UK, Ed has now become a strong critic of extremism and Islamism. He is an advocate of Muslim engagement in mainstream politics as citizens, and not as separatist, anti-western polemical ideologues with Islamist agendas. He worked for the British Council in Syria and Saudi Arabia (2003-2005).
Also check out the following:
The ICSR’s project ”De-radicalisation and Disengagement in Prisons – The Lessons from 15 Countries“ (Ed talks about radicalisation in prisons from minute 9:15)
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