Quilliam Foundation
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[1]
Personnel
- Maajid Nawaz – Director
- Ed Husain – Co-Director
- Rashad Ali – Head of Research and Policy
- Ashraf al-Hoque – Research Fellow
- Paddy Ashdown
- Sheikh BaBikr Ahmed BaBikr
- Giles Fraser
- Catherine Fieschi
- Timothy Garton Ash
Contact Information
Registered office:
- 34-36 High Holborn
- London
- WC1V 6AE
- email: information@quilliamfoundation.org
- Tel: 020 7193 1204
references
- ↑ Inayat Bunglawala, [http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/inayat_bunglawala/2008/04/abandoning_banning.html 'Abandoning banning', Guardian.co.uk, 17 April 2008
