Tawfik Hamid, an Egyptian Islamic scholar, said the following about Islam in Defeat The Third Jihad: From the Heart of a Muslim

  

“We have never had a clear and strong stand against the concept of slavery or wars, to spread our religion and to subjugate others to Islam and force them to pay a humiliating tax called jizia. We ask others to respect our religion while all the time we curse non-Muslims loudly (in Arabic) in our Friday prayers in the mosques….

I have to admit that our current Islamic teaching creates violence and hatred toward non-Muslims. We Muslims are the ones who need to change. Until now we have accepted polygamy, the beating of women by men, and killing those who convert from Islam to other religions…

It is our absolute silence against the terrorists that gives the energy to these terrorists to continue doing their evil acts...

Our religious leaders have to show a clear, and very strong stand against polygamy, paedophilia, slavery, killing those who convert from Islam to other religion, beating of women by men, and declaring wars on non-Muslims to spread Islam.

Then, and only then, do we have the right to ask others to respect our religion.The time has come to stop our hypocrisy and say it openly: We Muslims have to change!.”
 
Who is Tawfik Hamid?  Also known as Tarek Abdel Hamid, he has a medical degree in internal medicine and a master's degree in cognitive psychology and educational techniques. He is an author from Egypt and a self-described former member of the militant al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya. He advocates a peaceful understanding of Islam that is compatible with universal human rights andintellectual freedom.  He started to preach in mosques to promote his message and, as a result, became a target of Islamic militants, who threatened his life. He then migrated to the West where he has lectured at UCLA, Stanford University, University of Miami and Georgetown University against Islamic fundamentalism. He currently serves on the Advisory Council of The Intelligence Summit, an annual conference on security. Hamid has also appeared on television programs, including Fox's Glenn Beck Show, Fox News Channel, and the BBC's Religion and Ethics.
 
Hamid owns and runs a website, IslamforPeace.org "to revive Islam, save it from anachronistic interpretations, and make it a true power to support the values of liberty and humanity."  
 
In a 2009 Wall Street Journal article, Hamid claimed that Islam should prove its peacefulness and demanded that Islamic scholars and clerics "to produce a Shariah book that will be "accepted in the Islamic world and that teaches that Jews are not pigs and monkeys, that declaring war to spread Islam is unacceptable, and that killing apostates is a crime.
 
Hamid is the author of "Inside Jihad." Originally self-published in 2007, the book was republished by Mountain Lake Press in 2015 in an updated and expanded edition,Inside Jihad: How Radical Islam Works, Why It Should Terrify Us, How to Defeat It.
 
He has written opinion pieces for The Wall Street Journal, including Islam Needs To Prove It's A Religion Of Peace,[11] How to End Islamophobia[12] and The Trouble with Islam.[13] He also writes the “Inside Islam” column for Newsmax.[14]
 
Hamid participated in a symposium[15] published by National Review Online, where he expressed his view on the Sudanese teddy bear blasphemy case.
Hamid recounts his transformation into a jihadist in a piece published by the Hudson Institute, entitled The Development of a Jihadist's Mind.