By the age of 17, he was recruiting students from Cambridge University, and by 19, he was on the national leadership of HT in the United Kingdom. While a student at Newham College, and then at SOAS, Nawaz quickly rose through the ranks. Watching these videos eventually resulted in Nawaz's formal recruitment in the HT. At those meetings, recruits were shown videos of Bosnian Muslims being massacred. Osman subsequently persuaded Nawaz to attend HT meetings held in Southend homes. His elder brother, referred to pseudonymously as Osman, was recruited into Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) by Nasim Ghani, who would later become the UK leader of Hizb ut-Tahrir. Nawaz says racism from classmates, C18 gangs and police, and feeling divided between his Pakistani and British heritage meant he struggled to find his own identity growing up. Islamist activism Association with Hizb ut-Tahrir Later he studied Law and Arabic at SOAS, University of London, and earned his master's degree in political theory from the London School of Economics. Nawaz was educated at Westcliff High School for Boys, a grammar school in Westcliff-on-Sea, a suburb of Southend. In his memoir, Radical, he uses the pseudonym Osman to refer to his brother. Nawaz has an elder brother and a younger sister. After moving to the UK, Mo worked for an oil company in Libya, and moved between Libya and the UK until his retirement. His father, Mo, is an electrical engineer who had worked for the Pakistan Navy but had to leave on medical grounds after he contracted tuberculosis. His mother, Abi, moved to Southend with her family when she was nine. Nawaz was born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, to parents of Pakistani origin. Since 2020, Nawaz has promoted false claims related to COVID-19 and the 2020 United States presidential election. He was the Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for London's Hampstead and Kilburn constituency in the 2015 general election. His second book, Islam and the Future of Tolerance (2015), co-authored with atheist author Sam Harris, was published in October 2015. In 2012, he published an autobiography, Radical and has since become a prominent critic of Islamism in the United Kingdom. Later, Nawaz would co-found Quilliam with former Islamists, including Ed Husain. He left Hizb-ut-Tahrir in 2007, renounced his Islamist past, and called for a " secular Islam". While there, he read books about human rights and made contact with Amnesty International who adopted him as a prisoner of conscience. Until January 2022, he was the host of an LBC radio show on Saturdays and Sundays.īorn in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, to a British Pakistani family, Nawaz is a former member of the Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir which led to his December 2001 arrest in Egypt, where he remained imprisoned until 2006. He was the founding chairman of Quilliam.
Maajid Usman Nawaz ( Urdu: born 2 November 1977) is a British activist and former radio presenter.
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