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Revision as of 08:02, 29 May 2008

The Quilliam Foundation‏ is a London based think-tank purporting to challenge Islamic extremism in the UK. Incorporated as a limited company on 20 Nomember 2007, the Foundation was launched on 22 April 2008 recieving significant media attention.

Low key government support

Inayat Bunglawala of the Muslim Council of Great Britain wrote in Guardian Online's Comment is Free, that the Department of Communities and Local Government had hinted to UK Islamic groups that if they were prepared to work with they could obtain financial support from the government:

"Some representatives of various UK Islamic groups were invited to see senior officials at the Department of Communities and Local Government recently to discuss the work they were doing with young people. Strong hints were dropped that they could obtain financial support from the government, but only if they were prepared to work with - and thereby help lend credibility to - Ed Husain's soon to be launched Quilliam Foundation."[1]

At the Foundation's launch advisor Abdel-Aziz Al-Bukhari reportedly argued in his speech that Muslims should 'love, obey and respect' the government.[2]

Activities

The Foundation's first publication, "Pulling Together to Defeat Terror: Recommendations for Uprooting Islamic Extremism", says that if Muslim leaders "must realise that the foreign policy of the British government will not be held hostage by any one community," and argued that the editors of "liberal newspapers" should "think twice before allowing column space to Hamas and its supporters while they remain committed to the destruction of Israel".[3]

Funding

On the day of the launch the director Maajid Nawaz told Newsnight: "We have absolutely not received government money ,despite being offered it by the Preventing Violent Extremism Pathfinder Fund, and we have said that it is not appropriate for us at the moment - although I would emphasise that I don't have a problem in principle in receiving taxpayers' money for a good cause, as long as it comes with no strings attached."[4] Co-director Ed Husain has stated that the Foundation is receiving private Kuwait funding.[5]

Personnel

Advisors

Contact Information

Registered office:

34-36 High Holborn
London
WC1V 6AE
email: information@quilliamfoundation.org
Tel: 020 7193 1204

references

  1. Inayat Bunglawala, 'Abandoning banning', Guardian.co.uk, 17 April 2008
  2. Ziauddin Sardar, 'To lionise former extremists feeds anti-Muslim prejudice', The Guardian, 24 April 2008
  3. Susannah Tarbush, 'The Quilliam Foundation', Al-Hayat, 26 May 2008
  4. Susannah Tarbush, 'The Quilliam Foundation', Al-Hayat, 26 May 2008
  5. Susannah Tarbush, 'The Quilliam Foundation', Al-Hayat, 26 May 2008
  6. Advisors, accessed 26 April 2008.