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Shiraz Maher is a British writer, analyst, and critic of Islamism who is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Center for the Study of Radicalization (ICSR) at Kings College London. The son of Pakistani immigrants who for several years after 9/11 was a member of the Islamist organization Hizbut Tahrir, he left the movement after the 2005 London bombings and became an outspoken critic of radical Islam.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work =Oslo Freedom Forum )〕 Maher teaches at Johns Hopkins University, written for leading newspapers in Britain and elsewhere, produced influential reports and studies on counterterrorism strategy, and appeared in the international news media as an expert on jihad and radicalization. ==Early life== Maher was born in 1981 in Birmingham to British-Pakistani parents. His father was an accountant, and when Shiraz was an infant the family moved to Saudi Arabia. He stated he had never been very concerned about Saudi culture, noting he “lived in a Western compound, with everything you could want: tennis courts, swimming pools, cricket, basketball, bike races, all gender-mixed.” One day when he was eleven, he was wearing a Daffy Duck T-shirt bearing the slogan “I Support Operation Desert Storm” and a Saudi man challenged him about the sentiment. “I said, 'Why not? Saddam's a terrible man.' The man said: 'No. This is an American conspiracy. These people use us as an excuse to establish bases on holy soil.'” In 1995, when he was age 14, Maher moved back to Britain. In 2000, he enrolled at Leeds University.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shiraz Maher」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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