Rashad Ali

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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]

Rashid 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 Telegraphs 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 Extresmism 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

Notes

  1. Michael Weiss, Persons of Interest: Britain Learns from Ex-Islamists, World Affairs, July/August 2011.
  2. Rashad Ali: “The ISIS narrative is not orthodox religion, it’s a modern heresy”, Euronews, 4 January 2016.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Rashad Ali, LinkedIn, accessed 9 May 2016.
  4. RASHAD ALI CONTRIBUTES TO BBC WORLD HAVE YOUR SAY DISCUSSION, Quilliam Foundation, 4 December 2008.
  5. Andrew Gilligan, How banning radical Islamists will play right into their hands, Telegraph, 31 May 2015.