David Myatt

Myatt - "a British iconoclast" - is a former Catholic monk, a former British Muslim, a former neo-nazi, who since 2010 has written extensively about his rejection of both Islam and his extremist past, writing that: "What I came to understand, via pathei-mathos, was the importance - the human necessity, the virtue - of love, and how love expresses or can express the numinous in the most sublime, the most human, way. Of how extremism (of whatever political or religious …