- Maajid Nawaz Net Worth
- Maajid Nawaz Twitter
- Maajid Nawaz Hunger Strike Twitter
- Omna Navas
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Those familiar with Maajid Nawaz, LBC Radio presenter and founding chairman of Quilliam Foundation (an anti extremist think tank) will be aware of his dogged pursuance of anybody who suggests him to be either a terrorist/former terrorist or an extremist/former extremist due to his previous association with Hizb ut-Tahrir and his subsequent imprisonment in Egypt where the organisation is banned.
(For context Hizb ut-Tahrir isdescribed as an international pan-Islamist political organization proscribed inmany countries but not designated a terrorist organisation in most. However onecountry, Russia, is an exception to this. Hizb ut-Tahrir was first designated byRussia’s Supreme Court as a terrorist organization on February 14, 2003 andstill appears on their list of designated terrorist organisations.)
This article is not about the intricacies of whether or not Nawaz was a member of a designated terrorist organisation but about who he pursues alleging libel about him in relation to his membership of that organisation.
It is important to clarify that Resisting Hate are offering no personalopinion or speculation as regards the validity of any of the claims orallegations regarding Nawaz. We have seen no evidence to accuse the man ofanything untoward or to suggest he is anything other than a law abiding citizenof good character.
Maajid Nawaz Net Worth
19.8k Followers, 160 Following, 848 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from أبو عمَّار Maajid (@maajidnawaz). Maajid Nawaz highlighted a lack of coverage around the Trump campaign's legal action in the US Election is damaging to our democratic values. President Donald Trump announced on Twitter on Saturday afternoon that his legal team will take action against the Pennsylvania State legislature on apparent election tampering, but Maajid Nawaz noted that 'it's very important we take it seriously,' as.
So far Nawaz hassuccessfully secured financial remedy and apologies from several individualsand organisations for variously labelling him as an Anti-Muslim Extremist, aformer terrorist and an extremist. Most notably from SouthernPoverty Law Centre (SPLC).
Nawaz most recent receipt of an apologyand a donation to Quilliam Foundation on threat of legal action came from AaronBastani of Novaro Media after a tweet Bastani put out stating Nawaz is a formerterrorist.
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- A joint winner of the Broadcaster of the Year award, Maajid Nawaz speaks during the Pink News Awards in London on October 18, 2017. He was accused by the Southern Poverty Law Center of 'extremism.
- Quilliam co-founder Maajid Nawaz announced in a statementon Twitter that the decision to shut down the organisation was due to 'the hardship of maintaining a non-profit during Covid lockdowns'.
Maajid Nawaz Hunger Strike Twitter
The excellent @zelostreet blog covered the initial outbreak of indignation and legal threats by Nawaz here, prior to Bastani’s capitulation on notice of legal action.
Note the historical referencewhere Yaxley-Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson) stated in a piece published by theTelegraph on 18 October 2013 that ‘Theydon’t say that to Maajid Nawaz today. He was in Hizb-ut-Tahrir, he did sixyears [in prison] in Egypt for terrorism.’
The piece is still up online andwhen challenged about why Nawaz did not go after both Yaxley Lennon and TheTelegraph at the time he claimed he was unaware and has now run out of time.Fair enough, but he still has recourse to try and have that article removedfrom the internet yet so far he appears to have made no attempt to.
Only 10 days prior to the Telegraph publication, Maajid Nawaz and the Quilliam Foundation held a highly publicised press conference announcing their facilitation of Yaxley Lennon’s extraction from the English Defence League (EDL). So one does have to wonder how Quilliam were unaware of this interview given their newly acquired project of attempting to rehabilitate a far right Islamophobe and leader of a racist street movement into polite society. Surely they must have been keeping a tight watch on what Yaxley-Lennon was giving to the press in case he dropped them and their credibility in it.
Whilst The Telegraph article isout of time for any action other examples are not.
As recently as 2018, onlinenewspaper The Times of Israel published a sympathetic piece on Maajid Nawaz andhis journey from radical Islam to staunch Israel ally, yet led the piece bystating he was jailed for ‘espousing extremism.’ Also the New York Post in 2017covered his impending case with SPLC amongst other things but opened the piececalling him a ‘former Muslim extremist.’
Again, there appears to be noevidence of any proceedings for defamation in either case. That bothpublications are right leaning, and that is being generous, may be a clue, ornot.
So given Nawaz’s aforementionedappetite for threatening legal action against those he claims defame him (whichof course he has every right to do) some uncomfortable questions need to beasked about his cherry picking with regard to those he chooses to pursue.
Enter Stephen Yaxley-Lennon aka‘Tommy Robinson.’ Despite earlier associations with Quilliam Foundation andYaxley-Lennon there appears to be no love lost between him and Nawaz since theyparted ways. In April 2020 Nawaz picked up on a visit Yaxley-Lennon made toRussia in February 2020 to publicise his deeply flawed and controversial documentaryabout Pakistani grooming gangs with the inflammatory title, The Rape of Britain,and Nawaz decided to express his disapproval on Twitter.
The backlash from the cult ofTommeh was immediate and is all documented on Twitter for those who care tolook. Nawaz felt the need to remind everyone that it was he who had spoken outfor longer than most about grooming gangs and how dare Tommeh take away histhunder,
But the main focus of Nawaz’ ire was that Yaxley-Lennon is now working with a hostile foreign state. A hostile foreign state that proscribes the organisation where Nawaz’s was formerly a member as a terrorist organisation no less.
This is where things gets interesting … Yaxley-Lennon responded to Nawaz’s criticism of him with a series of videos where he explicity states that he considers Nawaz an ex-extremist who was part of a group proscribed by many countries as a terrorist organisation, thereby implying Nawaz by association was a terrorist. We have retained the footage of Yaxley Lennon making these statements and will be happy to pass to Nawaz or any other interested party. The footage can also be viewed here.
Yaxley- Lennon was particularly miffed as he interpreted Nawaz’s remarks as a comment on him being a traitor to his country and also believed that his (Yaxley Lennon’s) free speech was being denied unless Nawaz would have him on his radio show for a right to reply.
Instead of issuing Yaxley-Lennon withany defamation notice Nawaz amplified the video on his own feed sent to him byanother far right prolific Yaxley-Lennon supporter who runs the @DawkinsReturnsaccount and who is closely affiliated with Yaxley Lennon.
Why did Nawaz do this? Why giveoxygen to the libellous claim when he has been so quick to sue others who havesaid exactly the same thing?
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Offurther interest is the fact that a very close associate of Yaxley-Lennon whoruns the account @harvingtonTR (after his previous account was permanentlysuspended) went one step further and posted two tweets claiming that Nawaz is a‘coward and former terrorist’ and a ‘socalled former Islamic extremist.’
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Whichis about as libellous as libel gets…
Despite stating Nawaz has him on Twitter block @harvingtonTR tagged him in and also used the hashtag #maajidnawaz on the second tweet to ensure it was seen by Nawaz. The tweet has since been liked and retweeted many times and is still up on the @harvingtonTR account. One responder advised the account it was ‘Time to get yourself a good lawyer. Maajid has a 100% success rate so far…..could be expensive!’
Indeed it could get veryexpensive. But it hasn’t so far. In fact there has not a peep from Nawaz on thematter as yet. We are interested as to why that is the case…
There are several possible scenarios,Nawaz simply may not have seen the tweets (which seems unlikely given heappears to trawl for any comments levelling the dreaded T word against him), Nawazhas an agenda that only those on the political left wing are worth pursuing (despitethe far right being much more prolific in peddling every kind of bigotry andracism known to mankind) or Nawaz only pursues those with a large audience andthe means to cough up substantial financial redress.
Given that Yaxley-Lennon has asubstantial audience (though we at Resisting Hate are working on that) and aneven more substantial bank balance it is unlikely Nawaz chose not to sue himdue to inability to afford redress.
As @harvingtonTR is a well knownclose member of ‘team Tommeh’ this puts Yaxley-Lennon squarely in the spotlightto take responsibility for the comments his team make on his behalf.
So why didn’t you sue the pair of them Maajid?
What is the difference between the tweets below? Why would you chooseto take one libellous account through the courts and ignore the othercompletely?
And more to the point, now it has been brought to your attention, whatare you going to do about it?
Helpfully we have captured the unique twitter identifier forthe defamatory allegation posted by Stephen Yaxley-Lennon’s associate so, shouldit get deleted, we can provide details of the owner of that account to lawyerMark Lewis should you instruct him to act on your behalf again.