2012-12-15

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TED-Ed

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/maajid-nawaz-a-global-culture-to-fight-extremism

Why do transnational extremist organizations succeed where democratic movements have a harder time taking hold? Maajid Nawaz, a former Islamist extremist, asks for new grassroots stories and global social activism to spread democracy in the face of nationalism and xenophobia in this powerful Talk from TEDGlobal 2011.

Talk by Maajid Nawaz.