Mohammed Dajani Daoudi, the Weston Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, is the founder of the Wasatia Movement of Moderate Islam.

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Why I Left Islamic Extremism—and What It Cost Me

by Mohammed Dajani Daoudi 07-13-2016

Image via REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/RNS

A vortex of hatred is sweeping across the globe, from a nightclub in Orlando to an airport in Istanbul to a restaurant in Dhaka.

At its center are individuals who wrap their savagery in the cloak of Islam. But these terrorists — perhaps 50,000 to 100,000 of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims — are a perversion of the faith. They do not represent the Islam beloved by moderates like me.