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British-born writer and activist Ed Husain provides Twitter with one of its greatest insights into the world of radical Islamists – because he used to be one. Husain wrote a book about his experience as a teenager-turned-fundamentalist called The Islamist in 2007, and has since become one of social media’s strongest voices on issues facing Muslims around the globe.
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