Muslim-American activist Asra Nomani has slammed the "woke army" that is trying to "silence" those who stand up to Islamic extremism.
She also blasted the "toxic exportation of extremist ideology" from Iran and Saudi that she claimed was a "dichotomy for me as a girl growing up in the West."
In her conversation with Jacob Rees-Mogg on GBN America, she also discussed her friend, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl who was kidnapped and executed in Pakistan in 2002 for being Jewish.
The activist said: "No matter what community you're in, it is daunting to stand up to power and control. But what I learned from my friend Danny's murder is that so many innocents will lose their lives if we do not challenge extremism in our communities.
Asra Nomani spoke about her life growing up in the West
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"And you know too well that the man who kidnapped Danny was a British Pakistani by the name of Omar Sheikh, indoctrinated in the Mosques of London.
"There are kids amongst us who are indoctrinated, who try to intimidate us into silence. And then there are the elders too, who try to pressure us to silence.
"This organization that you spoke of, the Council on American Islamic Relations, they are part of this network that I call the 'Woke Army' that is trying to silence anybody who stands up to Islamic extremism.
"I know that a lot of viewers would be among those people.
Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl was kidnappedand beheaded while working on a story in Pakistan
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"I want to just encourage everyone to stand up with moral courage because silence is how they get complicit in their extremism."
She also went into detail about her life and explained: "You are looking at a Muslim feminist.
"I am a girl born in India to conservative Muslim parents.
"My parents were socially conservative. We immigrated to the United States like so many families immigrated to the United Kingdom and I was four years old.
Asra Nomani was a friend of Danny Pearl's
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"It was the summer of 1969 and I grew up with the feminist revolution. And I also grew up with something else.
"And that was the toxic exportation of an extremist ideology of Islam from Iran and the government of Saudi Arabia, starting with their revolutions in 1979.
"It was a dichotomy for me as a girl growing up in the West.
"I grew up on this girl detective named Nancy Drew and learned to be an empowered young woman."