Rashad Ali
Rashad Ali is a counter-extremism consultant and former senior member of Hizb ut-Tahrir.[1]
Ali joined Hizb ut-Tahrir at 15.[2]
He studied at Markfield Institute and al-Azhar University, Cairo.[3]
Ali was an early staff member at the Quilliam Foundation, serving as its curriculum manager in 2008.[4]
Since January 2009, he has worked at the counter-terrorist consultancy CENTRI.[3]
In May 2015, the Telegraph's Andrew Gilligan described Ali as a leading figure in the Home Office’s Channel deradicalisation programme. This description came in the context of criticism of Theresa May's Extremism Bill, of which Ali commented; '“The Government is obsessed with legislation but this is not something you can defeat by legislation. It is a battle of ideas and we have to defeat these ideas by argument, not by banning even having the debate.”[5]
Publications
- 'Islam, Shariah and the Far Right' published by Democratiya journal and Dissent.
- 'A Guide to Refuting Jihadism' published by Henry Jackson Society and EFD.
- 'Blasphemy and Free Speech - Hebdo and reactions to the incidents in Paris', for the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.
- 'Is Quietist Salafism the antidote to ISIS'? for the Brookings Institute.
- 'Political participation: Refuting the claims of extremist separatism' as part of the participatedontisolate.com campaign.[3]
- with Hannah Stuart, Refuting Jihadism: Can Jihad be reclaimed?, Hudson Institute, 1 August 2014.
Notes
- ↑ Michael Weiss, Persons of Interest: Britain Learns from Ex-Islamists, World Affairs, July/August 2011.
- ↑ Rashad Ali: “The ISIS narrative is not orthodox religion, it’s a modern heresy”, Euronews, 4 January 2016.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Rashad Ali, LinkedIn, accessed 9 May 2016.
- ↑ RASHAD ALI CONTRIBUTES TO BBC WORLD HAVE YOUR SAY DISCUSSION, Quilliam Foundation, 4 December 2008.
- ↑ Andrew Gilligan, How banning radical Islamists will play right into their hands, Telegraph, 31 May 2015.
