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Dr. Tawfik Hamid, a former member of a terror organization. |
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Dr. Tawfik Hamid, a former member of a terror organization. Dr. Tawfik Hamid, a former member of a terror organization. Born in Egypt to a secular Muslim family, Tawfik Hamid joined the extremist Islamic group Jamma'a Islameia, while he was a student in medical school. In his studies he was learning to heal, but in his thoughts, as he says, he "dreamed to die for Allah and to share in terrorist acts." His colleague in these formative days of the terror movement was Dr. Al Zawaheri, then an acquaintance with whom Tawfik used to pray, and now the number two person of Al Qaeda. Eventually Dr. Hamid questioned the hatred and impulses to violence that participation in extremist Islam was fomenting within him. When he began to preach in Mosques to promote a message of peace instead of violence and hatred, however, he himself became a target of the Islamic extremists who had been his friends. They threatened his life, forcing him and his family to flee Egypt, then Saudi Arabia and from there to the West. From his insider understanding of terrorist mentality, Dr. Hamid predicted the Twin Towers (9-11), Madrid, and London attacks. Now his mission has become to speak out against radical Islamic "a cancer that is spreading with frightening rapidity across the globe today." A courageous as well as scholarly initiator of Islamic reformation, Dr. Hamid seeks to build new thinking within Islam to overcome the hatred and violent extremism that have metastasized within his religious tradition His most recent essay, "The Development of a Jihadist's Mind", had been published by the Hudson Institute. Other Op-ed articles "The Trouble with Islam" and "How to End Islamophobia" were recently published by the Wall Street Journal. In addition, he has been on numerous television and radio shows, including BBC Religion & Ethics, FOX News, CNN's Glen Beck Show, Denis Prager radio show and shortly on the sequel to the documentary, "Obsession". ========================= ==== Speaking engagements and interviews: http://tawfikhamid.com/pr ess-room.html Author of the recently published book The Roots of Jihad: http://www.rootsofjihad.c om/index.php
Date : June 26, 2007 - 06:44:56 PM
Tags : Terror News Allah Jihadist Islam Terrorist Muslim Jihad Islamic
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