Maajid Nawaz knows what it’s like to be radicalized by outside influences, because it happened to him. Nawaz, a former Islamic extremist and author of the book “Radical,” said recently that he’s seeing the elites in power using the same tactics his extremist organization used to undermine people’s belief systems with specific narratives. “I do believe we, as citizens of open democratic societies, are in a war,” Nawaz told Jan Jekielek, host of American Thought Leaders, during a March 10 interview. “Call it ideological warfare, call it information warfare. It’s a war over narrative,” he said. “And the reason is that I believe whoever gets to define narratives around world events gets to define how those world events are perceived, and therefore how we respond to them.” “You have to destroy before you build. So, you undermine the belief system that the person already has, to a point where they don’t know who …