One of the major challenges, both to violent radicalism and to the mainstream Western narratives, has come from Maajid Nawaz, the founder of an anti-radical activism group called Quilliam and its international subsidiaries. Thankfully, a small but growing number of insider texts have appeared, detailing the multifaceted nature of Islam. Nothing has proven more difficult than the maintenance of clarity in the midst of the heady emotions in the years since Jihadists crashed passenger airliners into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and in a field in Pennsylvania (in an abortive attempt to suicide bomb a session of Congress, as it was later surmised). In the decade and more since the tragic violence of September 11, 2001, Western nations have been struggling to make sense of what happened.
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