'They tried to DESTROY my life!' Maajid Nawaz speaks out on being wrongly branded an 'anti-Muslim extremist' by liberal activists
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Maajid Nawaz has spoken to GB News about his landmark legal triumph against the Southern Poverty Law Center, which resulted in a $3.4million (£2.5million) payout and a formal apology from the liberal American organisation.The podcaster and political commentator secured what he describes as "the first and only successful case to win against the Southern Poverty Law Center" in 2018 after being wrongly listed as an "anti-Muslim extremist".The Southern Poverty Law Cente had placed Mr Nawaz on the "extremist" list despite his work challenging Islamist ideology as a practising Muslim.He told GB News: "When they named me as an anti-Muslim extremist, meanwhile, I'm a Muslim, of course, its intention was to destroy my life.
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