Radical: My Journey out of Islamist Extremism

Nawaz was driven into Islamism by the dehumanizing racism and bigotry he experienced growing up in England's Southend. As a political prisoner in Egypt, he experienced rehumanizing in the form of support from Amnesty International, which caused him to rethink the connection between Islamism and Islam. This caused him to create an organization called Quilliam that seeks to counter extremism through empowerment and education. The book is self-serving, and wonders what horrors he's not telling us about what he did while an active Islamist, but it does suggest there is a way out of the mess we're in.