Families Against Terrorism and Extremism
Families Against Terrorism and Extremism advertised itself as the 'biggest grassroots anti-extremism network in the world.'[1] It appears to have existed between March 2016 and around July 2017, when, presumably, the funding ran out. The domain name findfate.org was registered on 9 May 2016 using the anonymous 'Domains by proxy' service.[2]
FATE is also claimed to be:
- one of the rare straight forward organisations involving families directly touched by terrorism that started powerful campaigns targeting vulnerable youths. Thanks to numerous surveys and in-depth interviews with a hundred families, FATE published a report showing that faced by a failure of any top down government approach, the civil society and particularly families are key to countering extremism.[1]
In fact it was a front group set up by the Quilliam Foundation at the instigation of the US State Department, as Quilliam disclosed in testimony before a congressional hearing in 2018.[3]
FATE worked with the PR agency Verbalisation in 2016[4] and later with a spinout from the firm called Global Influence.[5]
Contact
- Internet Archive holdings: findfate.org
- Twitter: @FATE_EN Joined March 2016. Last Tweet: Jul 13, 2017
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Anicée Gohar FATE: Families Unite Against Terrorism and Extremism, Scoopempire 14 November 2016.
- ↑ Whoxy findfate.org. Accessed 25 march 2020.
- ↑ Haras Rafiq The Role of Women in Countering Violent Extremism Testimony before Terrorism, Non-Proliferation, and Trade Subcommittee Committee on Foreign Affairs United States House of Representatives 27th February 2018. Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 23 September 2018 on 25 March 2020.
- ↑ PR Newswire Verbalisation Expands With Launch of Global Defence and Political Firm News provided by Global Influence, 14 Jul, 2016, 08:00 BST
- ↑ FATE – Families Against Terrorism and Extremism: We Are Tomorrow by Global Influence Location: Europe. Agency: Global Influence Client: FATE – Families Against Terrorism and Extremism, The Drum, Date: Oct 2016.
