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fosters these numbers. Britain has become a net

exporter of Islamism and jihadism. My former

Islamist group didn’t exist in Pakistan until we

exported it from Britain.

So we’ve got a serious prob lem in the UK and

across Eu rope, and I’m not making any excuses for

that. We set up Quilliam to meet this challenge

head-on. We attempt, fi rst and foremost, to isolate

jihadists from everyone else and then to chal-

lenge Islamists and distinguish them from con-

servatives and other Muslim communities. We

encourage Muslims to start seeing po liti cal Is-

lamism for what it is: a modern ideology that fi rst

emerged with the Muslim Brotherhood. We also

address Muslim communities in the UK on the

broader need to wholeheartedly subscribe to demo-

cratic, human rights– based reform. That’s a huge

challenge just in Eu rope, let alone the rest of the

world. So we need all the help we can get.

The Power of Belief

Harris To return to your personal story for a mo-
ment, your Islamism seems to have been primarily
po liti cal, borne of some legitimate grievances—

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