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 ===Original List of Advisors===
 The following is a list of Quilliam Foundation's original Advisors that was available on the Quilliam website, before it was removed sometime before 27 May 2008.The images on the right are screengrabs of the original list of advisors to the Quilliam Foundation that are no longer viewable on the Quilliam Foundation website but were instead retrieved using an archive website.<ref>[http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Image:Waybackmachine_QF_Advisors.jpg Screengrab of Waybackmachine highlighting changes to Quilliam Foundation website regarding Advisors]. Captured on 21/02/10 using ‘Way back machine’ on www.archive.org. Original available at http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://quilliamfoundation.org/advisors.html</ref> By the 27 May 2008 the page had been removed and was replaced by an announcement that the Quilliam Foundation had removed the advisor list 'to save them the indignity of constant Islamist-Wahhabite harassment'.<ref>[http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Image:Quilliam_Foundation_Alert_on_Advisors.jpg Screengrab of Quilliam Foundation Advisors Note]. Captured on 21/02/10 using ‘Way back machine’ on www.archive.org. Archived date – 27 May 2008</ref>
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 *[[Ashraf al-Hoque]] – Research Fellow
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-*[[Nikita Malik]] - Senior Researcher
 *[[Usama Hassan]] - Senior Researcher in Islamic Studies
 *[[Haydar Zaki]] - Programs Officer.
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 *[[George Readings]] - Communications Officer (also behind [[The Spittoon]])
 *[[Mehrunnisa Yusuf]] - Former Pakistan Project Officer
 ===Original List of Advisors===

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 Until late 2009 Quilliam Foundation enjoyed a close relationship with the [[Centre for Social Cohesion]]. Together their members run [[The Spittoon]], whose future now remains uncertain amid the public split between the two think-tanks. On October 23 2009, [[Douglas Murray]] of CfSC accused [[Ed Husain]] of holding 'extreme views...quite appallingly illiberal'<ref>Douglas Murray, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/23/quilliam-islamic-fundamentalists-terrorism Quilliam's toxic take on liberty], ''The Guardian'', 23 October 2009</ref> after the Quilliam director had taken a position supporting spying on innocent people.
 :QF has become part of the problem...The nature of QF and its funding arrangements ought to be a source of concern to all British taxpayers, no matter what their political or religious opinions, and finally be brought out in the open...QF is currently cosying up to the Conservative party to ensure its role under the next government. It would not be a bad thing if that party's first cost-cutting exercise was to stop funding an organisation that has come to represent the toxic juncture at which intense personal ambition and government propaganda meet.<ref>Vikram Dodd, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/oct/16/anti-terrorism-strategy-spies-innocents Government anti-terrorism strategy 'spies' on innocent], ''The Guardian'', 16 October 2009</ref>
-The piece generated a war of words between supporters of the two think-tanks in the article's comments section.<ref>Douglas Murray, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/23/quilliam-islamic-fundamentalists-terrorism Quilliam's toxic take on liberty], ''The Guardian'', 23 October 2009</ref> The attack may have been instigated by an earlier article by [[James Brandon]] of Quilliam in which he attacked Murray, his former employer. In the article Brandon listed Murray as one of the leading 'preachers of hate', one of the right's 'non-violent extremists' who has 'routinely demonised Muslims collectively'. He accused Murray of failing to 'distinguish Islam from Islamism'. Of his resignation from [[CSC]] he wrote:
+The piece generated a war of words between supporters of the two think-tanks in the article's comments section.<ref>Douglas Murray, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/23/quilliam-islamic-fundamentalists-terrorism Quilliam's toxic take on liberty], ''The Guardian'', 23 October 2009</ref> The attack may have been instigated by an earlier article by [[James Brandon]] of Quilliam in which he attacked Murray, his former employer. In the article, Brandon listed Murray as one of the leading 'preachers of hate', one of the right's 'non-violent extremists' who has 'routinely demonised Muslims collectively'. He accused Murray of failing to 'distinguish Islam from Islamism'. Of his resignation from [[CSC]] he wrote:
 :My time there was a constant struggle to "de-radicalise" Murray and to ensure that the centre's output targeted only Islamists – and not Muslims as a whole. This October, however, I had finally had enough of this constant battle and resigned.<ref>James Brandon, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/13/islam-uksecurity Reining in the Preachers of Hate], ''The Guardian'', 13 January 2009</ref>
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 For some of those who saw potential Quilliam's early claims to independence were crucial. One terrorism expert, [[M.J. Gohel]] told the ''Christian Science Monitor'' that ‘if there are people that have the platform and the ability to challenge and expose myths that Al-Qaeda purveys then that is very important and significant," but added that Quilliam ‘will have to prove its financial independence to keep its integrity intact.’<ref>Mark Rice-Oxley, [http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2008/0423/p01s09-woeu.html British ex-jihadis form ranks for tolerance], ''Christian Science Monitor'', 23 April 2008.</ref>
-Within weeks of Quilliam’s launch, however, the ''Evening Standard'' would report that Quilliam’s un-named initial un-named backers had pulled out, and that Ed Husain was seeking new funding from Muslims in the UK.<ref>Gulf backers pull plug on Islamic peace think tank; The Londoner's Diary, ''Evening Standard'', 27 May 2008.</ref> Parliament would later be told that it was only after this incident that Quilliam began to receive public funding, from the Home Office PVE programme and from the Foreign Office.<ref>[http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmhansrd/cm110315/halltext/110315h0001.htm Hansard], 15 March 2011, column 2WH.</ref> The result was starkly at odds with Quilliam’s initial claims of independence. In 2008-09, Quilliam received £674,608 from the Home Office, equivalent to almost three quarters of its total income of £915,456 for that year.<ref>Home Office, Freedom of Information response, 6 May 2015.</ref>
+Within weeks of Quilliam’s launch, however, the ''Evening Standard'' would report that Quilliam’s un-named initial un-named backers had pulled out, and that Ed Husain was seeking new funding from Muslims in the UK.<ref>Gulf backers pull plug on Islamic peace think tank; The Londoner's Diary, ''Evening Standard'', 27 May 2008.</ref> Parliament would later be told that it was only after this incident that Quilliam began to receive public funding, from the Home Office PVE programme and from the Foreign Office.<ref>[http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmhansrd/cm110315/halltext/110315h0001.htm Hansard], 15 March 2011, column 2WH.</ref> The result was starkly at odds with Quilliam’s initial claims of independence. In 2008-09, Quilliam received £674,608 from the Home Office, equivalent to almost three-quarters of its total income of £915,456 for that year.<ref>Home Office, Freedom of Information response, 6 May 2015.</ref>
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 The Foundation's views however are not entirely in line with that of the British government. Whereas Tony Blair had recognized the Israeli occupation of Palestine as the central issue exacerbating relations between the Muslim world and the West, in an FAQ the Foundation tellingly presents the situation as an 'Arab-Israeli' conflict (to suggest parity), rather than a military occupation (it does not use the word <i>occupation</i> once). It draws parity between the Israeli military and Hamas, and while it has nothing to say about the crimes of the former, it accuses the latter of 'politicking with the lives of ordinary Palestinians'. The response to the question of Palestine ends with Muslims being encouraged to 'care about other conflicts and issues in the world, including Burma, Darfur, climate change, poverty, and gender inequality.' <ref>[http://www.quilliamfoundation.org/faqs.html Frequently Asked Questions – A Candid Response] (Accessed, 28 July 2009)</ref>
 ===Double Standards===
-The Foundation is clearly discriminating in the the type of extremist views it wishes to proscribe. While it opposed the UK government's ban on the extremist Dutch politician Geert Wilders (who [[Ed Husain]] described as 'undoubtedly an ill-informed, hate-driven bigot'), arguing that 'Banning Geert Wilders from the UK is not the solution. Just as the ideas of non-violent Islamist groups like Hizb ut-Tahrir should be tackled through debate and argument, so should those of Wilders and others.'<ref>[http://www.quilliamfoundation.org/index.php/component/content/article/404 Press Release: Quilliam Foundation challenges Geert Wilders to a debate on Islam] 12 February 2009</ref> However, three weeks later in March 2009, the Foundation intervened with the Bradford Police, the Council, and the Community Centre where Hizb ut-Tahrir was holding a public meeting in order to get it banned.<ref>[http://www.bedfordtoday.co.uk/bed-news/Call-to-ban-Islamic-meeting.5034541.jp Call to ban Islamic meeting], ''Bradford Today'', 3 March 2009</ref> The Foundation has also attacked various British figures for their links to Sheikh Qaradawi, yet it has been perfectly willing to publish its material on Islamonline.net, despite the website's conspicuous connection to Qaradawi.<ref>[http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1248078606878&pagename=Zone-English-Family%2FFYELayout Muslim Women and Unemployment], ''IslamOnline.net'', 21 July 2009</ref>
+The Foundation is clearly discriminating in the type of extremist views it wishes to proscribe. While it opposed the UK government's ban on the extremist Dutch politician Geert Wilders (who [[Ed Husain]] described as 'undoubtedly an ill-informed, hate-driven bigot'), arguing that 'Banning Geert Wilders from the UK is not the solution. Just as the ideas of non-violent Islamist groups like Hizb ut-Tahrir should be tackled through debate and argument, so should those of Wilders and others.'<ref>[http://www.quilliamfoundation.org/index.php/component/content/article/404 Press Release: Quilliam Foundation challenges Geert Wilders to a debate on Islam] 12 February 2009</ref> However, three weeks later in March 2009, the Foundation intervened with the Bradford Police, the Council, and the Community Centre where Hizb ut-Tahrir was holding a public meeting in order to get it banned.<ref>[http://www.bedfordtoday.co.uk/bed-news/Call-to-ban-Islamic-meeting.5034541.jp Call to ban Islamic meeting], ''Bradford Today'', 3 March 2009</ref> The Foundation has also attacked various British figures for their links to Sheikh Qaradawi, yet it has been perfectly willing to publish its material on Islamonline.net, despite the website's conspicuous connection to Qaradawi.<ref>[http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1248078606878&pagename=Zone-English-Family%2FFYELayout Muslim Women and Unemployment], ''IslamOnline.net'', 21 July 2009</ref>
 ===Focus on Pakistan===
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 ====Payments to Lennon====
-Just months after Lennon left the [[EDL]] it became clear from statements he posted on twitter that his views had not changed. In early December 2015, this was confirmed when he announced he was starting [[Pegida UK]], a branch of the German anti-Islam, anti-immigrant movement. Days later it emerged that Quilliam had made payments to him around the time it was 'facilitating his departure' from the EDL.
+Just months after Lennon left the [[EDL]] it became clear from statements he posted on Twitter that his views had not changed. In early December 2015, this was confirmed when he announced he was starting [[Pegida UK]], a branch of the German anti-Islam, anti-immigrant movement. Days later it emerged that Quilliam had made payments to him around the time it was 'facilitating his departure' from the EDL.
 ''Huffington Post'' reported that in his newly published book 'Enemy of the State', Lennon claimed that 'he was on the Quilliam payroll for six months and received about £8,000.'<ref name="Hopkins">[http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/12/03/tommy-robinson-claims-quilliam-paid-him-to-leave-edl_n_8710834.html Tommy Robinson, Former EDL Leader, Claims Quilliam Paid Him To Quit Far-Right Group], Huffington Post, 4 December 2015</ref>
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 Quilliam registered as a charity in California in July 2011.<ref>[http://rct.doj.ca.gov/Verification/Web/Details.aspx?result=716ea171-c2af-4eb6-be0d-ef2345b0f29f Quilliam Foundation], Office of the Attorney General, State of California Department of Justice, accessed 12 December 2016.</ref> Journalist Nafeez Ahmed notes that this was the same year the foundation lost its Home Office funding.<ref name="Ahmed1">Nafeez Ahmed, [http://www.alternet.org/world/how-violent-extremists-hijacked-london-based-counter-extremism-think-tank How violent Extremists Hijacked a London Based Counter-extremism think tank], Alternet, 28 April 2015</ref> Quilliam's form 990 filing for 2011 listed it's US directors as [[Michael P. Davidson|Michael Davidson]], the CEO of [[Gen Next]], [[Ed Husain]] and [[Chad Sweet]].<ref name="Quilliam9902011">Quilliam Foundation, Form 990, 2011.</ref>
-Sweet, formerly a counter-terrorism official in the administration of [[George W. Bush]] was appointed as director and served for two years from 2011. Also in 2011, Sweet had set up a non-profit in Texas called '[[Ted Cruz]] for Senate', helping the Republican - who would latest be a contender for the GOP's presidential candidate - to gain election to senate in 2012. Sweet also directs 'Texans for Ted Cruz', and has personally donated to Cruz's attempt to run for president.<ref name="Ahmed1"/>
+Sweet, formerly a counter-terrorism official in the administration of [[George W. Bush]] was appointed as director and served for two years from 2011. Also in 2011, Sweet had set up a non-profit in Texas called '[[Ted Cruz]] for Senate', helping the Republican - who would latest be a contender for the GOP's presidential candidate - to gain election to the Senate in 2012. Sweet also directs 'Texans for Ted Cruz', and has personally donated to Cruz's attempt to run for president.<ref name="Ahmed1"/>
 As Ahmed notes, 'Cruz represents the very far-right of the Republican spectrum and is close to the most bigoted elements of the Tea Party movement.' he has spoken alongside  notorious anti-Muslim bigot [[Robert Spencer]] at an event organized by the [[Young America's Foundation]] which has also hosted [[David Horowitz]] and [[Ann Coulter]] and in 2011 merged with the group [[Young Americans for Freedom]] who had played host to Holocaust-denier [[Nick Griffin]] of the [[BNP]].<ref name="Ahmed1">Nafeez Ahmed, [http://www.alternet.org/world/how-violent-extremists-hijacked-london-based-counter-extremism-think-tank How violent Extremists Hijacked a London Based Counter-extremism think tank], Alternet, 28 April 2015</ref>
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 ===Original List of Advisors===
-The following is a list of Quilliam Foundation's original Advisors that was available on the Quilliam website, before it was removed sometime before 27 May 2008.The images on the right are screengrabs of the original list of advisors to the Quilliam Foundation that are no longer viewable on the Quilliam Foundation website but were instead retrieved using an archive wesbite.<ref>[http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Image:Waybackmachine_QF_Advisors.jpg Screengrab of Waybackmachine highlighting changes to Quilliam Foundation website regarding Advisors]. Captured on 21/02/10 using ‘Way back machine’ on www.archive.org. Original available at http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://quilliamfoundation.org/advisors.html</ref> By the 27 May 2008 the page had been removed and was replaced by an announcement that the Quilliam Foundation had removed the advisor list 'to save them the indignity of constant Islamist-Wahhabite harrassment'.<ref>[http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Image:Quilliam_Foundation_Alert_on_Advisors.jpg Screengrab of Quilliam Foundation Advisors Note]. Captured on 21/02/10 using ‘Way back machine’ on www.archive.org. Archived date – 27 May 2008</ref>
+The following is a list of Quilliam Foundation's original Advisors that was available on the Quilliam website, before it was removed sometime before 27 May 2008.The images on the right are screengrabs of the original list of advisors to the Quilliam Foundation that are no longer viewable on the Quilliam Foundation website but were instead retrieved using an archive website.<ref>[http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Image:Waybackmachine_QF_Advisors.jpg Screengrab of Waybackmachine highlighting changes to Quilliam Foundation website regarding Advisors]. Captured on 21/02/10 using ‘Way back machine’ on www.archive.org. Original available at http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://quilliamfoundation.org/advisors.html</ref> By the 27 May 2008 the page had been removed and was replaced by an announcement that the Quilliam Foundation had removed the advisor list 'to save them the indignity of constant Islamist-Wahhabite harassment'.<ref>[http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Image:Quilliam_Foundation_Alert_on_Advisors.jpg Screengrab of Quilliam Foundation Advisors Note]. Captured on 21/02/10 using ‘Way back machine’ on www.archive.org. Archived date – 27 May 2008</ref>
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 ==Quilliam U.S.==
-Quilliam was incorporated in California in January 2009.<ref>[http://kepler.sos.ca.gov/ Business Search], California Secretary of State, accessed 12 December 2016.</ref> It's registered address is [[4100 Macarthur Boulevard, Newport Beach]], the home of [[Gen Next]], a non-profit associated with the Makarachian family, whose real estate businesses are also located there.<ref>[http://www.loopnet.com/Property-Record/4100-Macarthur-Boulevard-Newport-Beach-CA-92660/ZqU9uS66Q/Tenant/?LID=18150220&LinkCode=21740&From=Profile&FromLocation=Profile&ng=y&ngu=%2fListing%2f18150220%2f4100-Macarthur-blvd-Newport-Beach-CA%2f 4100 Macarthur Boulevard, Newport Beach, CA 92660], LoopNet, accessed 8 December 2016.</ref>
+Quilliam was incorporated in California in January 2009.<ref>[http://kepler.sos.ca.gov/ Business Search], California Secretary of State, accessed 12 December 2016.</ref> Its registered address is [[4100 Macarthur Boulevard, Newport Beach]], the home of [[Gen Next]], a non-profit associated with the Makarachian family, whose real estate businesses are also located there.<ref>[http://www.loopnet.com/Property-Record/4100-Macarthur-Boulevard-Newport-Beach-CA-92660/ZqU9uS66Q/Tenant/?LID=18150220&LinkCode=21740&From=Profile&FromLocation=Profile&ng=y&ngu=%2fListing%2f18150220%2f4100-Macarthur-blvd-Newport-Beach-CA%2f 4100 Macarthur Boulevard, Newport Beach, CA 92660], LoopNet, accessed 8 December 2016.</ref>
 Quilliam registered as a charity in California in July 2011.<ref>[http://rct.doj.ca.gov/Verification/Web/Details.aspx?result=716ea171-c2af-4eb6-be0d-ef2345b0f29f Quilliam Foundation], Office of the Attorney General, State of California Department of Justice, accessed 12 December 2016.</ref> Journalist Nafeez Ahmed notes that this was the same year the foundation lost its Home Office funding.<ref name="Ahmed1">Nafeez Ahmed, [http://www.alternet.org/world/how-violent-extremists-hijacked-london-based-counter-extremism-think-tank How violent Extremists Hijacked a London Based Counter-extremism think tank], Alternet, 28 April 2015</ref> Quilliam's form 990 filing for 2011 listed it's US directors as [[Michael P. Davidson|Michael Davidson]], the CEO of [[Gen Next]], [[Ed Husain]] and [[Chad Sweet]].<ref name="Quilliam9902011">Quilliam Foundation, Form 990, 2011.</ref>

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 <td align="center">234,717</td>
 <td align="center">207,026<ref>Form 990 reviewed by Spinwatch: USD304,004 calculated at annual average rate 0.681 for 2015. Payment address to The Quilliam Foundation Ltd </ref></td>
-<td align="center">(USD$447,703) <ref> needs to be converted to £sterling at 2016 average rate</td>
+<td align="center">(USD$447,703) <ref> needs to be converted to £sterling at 2016 average rate</ref></td>
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 Co-director Ed Husain has stated that the Foundation is receiving private Kuwait funding.<ref>Susannah Tarbush, [http://english.daralhayat.com/opinion/commentators/05-2008/Article-20080526-23da75e6-c0a8-10ed-01e2-5c73f881a09b/story.html 'The Quilliam Foundation'], ''Al-Hayat'', 26 May 2008</ref>
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 <tr><th colspan="12" bgcolor="goldenrod" align="center">Grant received by Quilliam from 2008-2015 in £ GBP <ref>Data compiled from yearly 990 forms of each donor and FOI releases </ref></th></tr>
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 <td align="center">158,896.66</td>
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 <td align="center">370,000 (estimate)</td>
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 <td align="center">79,000</td>
 <td align="center">94,500</td>
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 <td align="center">234,717</td>
 <td align="center">207,026<ref>Form 990 reviewed by Spinwatch: USD304,004 calculated at annual average rate 0.681 for 2015. Payment address to The Quilliam Foundation Ltd </ref></td>
 <td align="center">'''£1,297,658'''</td>
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 <td align="center">98,325</td>
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 <td align="center">19,352 ($30,000)</td>
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 ===Foreign and Commonwealth Office===
-From January 2009 until January 2010, the Quilliam Foundation were given £138,890 by the [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]].<ref>[http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Image:FoI_1121-09.jpg FOI REQUEST 1121-09 - COPY OF PREVIOUSLY RELEASED INFORMATION]. Ref 0967-08 Questions on the use of the Quilliam Foundation by the FCO in the last twelve months: FCO Visits by Quilliam Foundation and FCO funding for Quilliam Foundation - Release date of information: 22 January 2010</ref> Moreover, the co-Director of the Quilliam Foundation, [[Ed Husain]], was sent to Cairo and Alexandria on an [[FCO]] funded trip entitled 'Projecting British Islam' from 7-11 July 2008 to 'build partnerships between prominent British Muslims and like-minded Egyptians to highlight positive messages about modern Islam and counterbalance the extremist ideology and narrative'.<ref>[http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Image:FoI_1121-09.jpg FOI REQUEST 1121-09 - COPY OF PREVIOUSLY RELEASED INFORMATION]. Ref 0967-08 Questions on the use of the Quilliam Foundation by the FCO in the last twelve months: FCO Visits by Quilliam Foundation and FCO funding for Quilliam Foundation - Release date of information: 22 January 2010</ref>
+From January 2009 until January 2010, the Quilliam Foundation was given £138,890 by the [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]].<ref>[http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Image:FoI_1121-09.jpg FOI REQUEST 1121-09 - COPY OF PREVIOUSLY RELEASED INFORMATION]. Ref 0967-08 Questions on the use of the Quilliam Foundation by the FCO in the last twelve months: FCO Visits by Quilliam Foundation and FCO funding for Quilliam Foundation - Release date of information: 22 January 2010</ref> Moreover, the co-Director of the Quilliam Foundation, [[Ed Husain]], was sent to Cairo and Alexandria on an [[FCO]] funded trip entitled 'Projecting British Islam' from 7-11 July 2008 to 'build partnerships between prominent British Muslims and like-minded Egyptians to highlight positive messages about modern Islam and counterbalance the extremist ideology and narrative'.<ref>[http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Image:FoI_1121-09.jpg FOI REQUEST 1121-09 - COPY OF PREVIOUSLY RELEASED INFORMATION]. Ref 0967-08 Questions on the use of the Quilliam Foundation by the FCO in the last twelve months: FCO Visits by Quilliam Foundation and FCO funding for Quilliam Foundation - Release date of information: 22 January 2010</ref>
 In March 2011, Minister [[Damian Green]] stated in relation to funding to Quilliam: 'Quilliam has received more Home Office Prevent funding than any other single organisation—nearly £1.2 million over the past three financial years. The Foreign Office has provided nearly £1.5 million in project funding over the same period.<ref>[http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmhansrd/cm110315/halltext/110315h0001.htm Hansard], 15 March 2011, column 22WH.</ref>