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'''Ed Husain''' (born [[1975]] in [[London]]) is the pen name of the [[British]] writer Mohammad Mahbub Hussain who is the author of [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Islamist-Joined-Radical-Britain-Inside/dp/0141030437/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/203-6693172-2476712?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1178056442&sr=8-1 The Islamist]. |
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==Personal life, education, and career== |
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Husain's father was born in India and his mother originates from Bangladesh. He grew up in the Limehouse area of [[London]] and attended Sir William Borough School, [http://www.stepneygreen.towerhamlets.sch.uk/ Stepney Green School], [http://www.tower.ac.uk Tower Hamlets College] and [http://www.newham.ac.uk Newham College]. He later worked for [[HSBC]] and the [[British Council]] in [[Saudi Arabia]] and [[Syria]] before enrolling at the [http://www.soas.ac.uk School of Oriental and African Studies]. |
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Husain claims that in the early [[1990s]] he was associated with [[Jamaat-e-Islami]], [[East London Mosque]], [http://www.ymouk.com/ Young Muslims Organisation]] and [[Hizb ut-Tahrir]]. However, to date there has been no independent corroboration of any substantive association with any of these organisations. In an interview broadcast by [[CNN]] on May 3 2007, a spokesman for [[Hizb ut-Tahrir]] denied Husain's claim that he had been a member of the organisation. |
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Husain has also claimed to be an associate of [[Inayat Bunglawala]] and [[Omar Bakri Muhammad]]. |
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The right-wing, pro-Israeli [[Daily Mail]] columnist [[Melanie Phillips]] has described Husain as a [http://www.melaniephillips.com/diary/?p=1505 "brave Muslim"]. |
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==The Islamist== |
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In [[The Islamist]], Husain describes how he became an [[Islamic fundamentalist]] at the age of 16. He explains that, "Five years later, after much emotional turmoil, I rejected fundamentalist teachings and returned to normal life and my family." Husain says that he wants to "explain the appeal of extremist thought, how fanatics penetrate Muslim communities and the truth behind their agenda of subverting the West and moderate Islam." |
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A [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article1702333.ece review] of [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Islamist-Joined-Radical-Britain-Inside/dp/0141030437/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/203-6693172-2476712?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1178056442&sr=8-1 The Islamist] in the Sunday Times notes that Husain asserts that [[Hizb ut-Tahrir]] supported [[Saddam Hussain]] and recruited the suicide bomber [[Asif Hanif]] in London. However, academics have documented the execution of [[Hizb ut-Tahrir]] members by the Saddam regime. Taji-Farouki notes that "In December 1990 five activists were executed in Suleymaniyya and six in Mosul in response to a note sent to the Iraqi embassy in Amman urging Saddam Hussain to abandon Ba'thism and to declare an Islamic Caliphate" <ref>Suha Taji-Farouki, A Fundamental Quest – Hizb ut-Tahrir and the Search for the Islamic Caliphate, p. 154, Grey Seal, London 1996</ref>. [[Asif Hanif]] was associated with 'LightStudy', an international Sufi Muslim group with its British base at Hounslow mosque <ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,949104,00.html] Making of a Martyr</ref>. The group is led by the Syrian cleric Sheikh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi and an investigation by [[The Observer]] found that Hanif was most probably recruited in Damascus, not London. |
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Following the publication of [[The Islamist]], some have accused Husain of having been a 'peripheral character' whose association with Islamic groups in Britain occurred some fifteen years ago. Writing on the BBC World Have Your Say blog, BBC World Service listener Sara Hussain, writes that, "From my research, Ed Husain was a very peripheral character within the Hizb ut-Tahir organisation - his association with them is some fifteen years ago - one must question why he has decided to come out with this book now, when the British PM talked of banning them - I sense a large degree of opportunism on his part. I also find his analysis of Saudi society to be superficial - surely he doesn't argue that the so-called "Islamists" want to impose a Saudi style regime in the Muslim world - indeed it was the foreign influence on Saudi/Gulf states that has led to immense resentment amongst Muslims." |
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==Works== |
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* ''The Islamist'' (2007) |
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==See also== |
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*[[Islamism]] |
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*[[Extremism]] |
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*[[East London Mosque]] |
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==References== |
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==External links== |
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* [http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780141030432,00.html The Islamist - Penguin Books] |
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* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/worldhaveyoursay/2007/04/kumi_naidoo_and_ed_husian.html BBC World Have Your Say with Ed Husain] |
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* [http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_freevideo/~3/113795673/index.html CNN Interview with Ed Husain] |
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