Andrew Green
Sir Andrew Green, (Lord Green of Deddington) is former Foreign Office mandarin, Arabist, one-time ambassador to Syria and to Saudi Arabia. He is also the founder and chairman of immigration think tank MigrationWatch UK.
Green is a cross-bench peer who joined the UK House of Lords on 24 November 2014.
In the Lords' register of interests, Green declares that he receives research assistance from Migration Watch UK, but is not paid for his role as its chairman. [1]
Wrote foreword for Caroline Cox and John Marks book on Islam and the West
In 2003 Green wrote the introduction to a book by Caroline Cox and John Marks' entitled, The ‘West’, Islam and Islamism: Is ideological Islam compatible with liberal democracy? [2] and is on the advisory council of Migration Watch which was described as "a xenophobic body" by Lord Peston in the House of Lords.[3]Cox argues that the government used IICORR.<ref>Hansard (2008) 26 February: Column 624. Cox stated:
Resources
- Brian Whitaker, Grovelling in Riyadh, Spinwatch, 24 January 2015.
Notes
- ↑ Lord Green of Deddington, www.parliament.co.uk, accessed 12 February 2015
- ↑ Caroline Cox and John Marks (2003) The ‘West’, Islam and Islamism: Is ideological Islam compatible with liberal democracy? , Civitas, 2nd Revised edition (16 Oct 2006). Published by the right-wing think tank Civitas Institute for the Study of Civil Society, at the time Civitas was part of the Mezzanine with Demos and the Foreign Policy Centre and other think tanks; its findings are summarised in Civitas (2003) Better understanding is needed between West and Islam. The work adds that Cox is Chairman of the Executive Board of the International Islamic Christian Organisation for Reconciliation and Reconstruction (IICORR), of which little information seems readily available, and that John Marks is director of the Civitas Education Unit.
- ↑ Hansard (2008) Lords Hansard, Immigration (EAC Report), 14 November, Column 897, Lord Peston in response to Cox.
