Dr. Tarek Abdelhamid, is an Islamic thinker, and one time Islamic extremist from Egypt. He was a member of a terrorist Islamic organization Jamma Islameia JI. Some twenty-five years ago, he recognized the threat of radical teachings and decided since then to promote peaceful interpretations of classical Islamic core texts. Dr. Abdelhamid provided a fresh and theologically valid interpretation for the Quran to counterbalance the radical teaching