The Quilliam Foundation is the world’s first counter extremism think-tank. Located in London, our founders are former leading ideologues of UK-based extremist Islamist organizations – organizations that are still active today.
Extremism, a prelude to terrorism, cannot be contained by Muslims alone. Not least because religious rigidity and extremism are products of the failures of wider society to foster a shared sense of belonging and to advance liberal democratic values among all sections of society. That said, we believe a more self-critical approach must be adopted by Muslim leaders to free communities from Westophobic ideological influences, escape social insularity and facilitate the organic growth of Western Islam.
The Quilliam Foundation seeks to challenge what we think, and the way we think. It aims to generate creative thought paradigms through informed and inclusive discussion to counter the Islamist ideology behind terrorism, whilst simultaneously providing evidence-based recommendations to governments for related policy measures. Our strategic communications work involves research projects, public events, specialist roundtables and media campaigns to empower civil society to work towards improved community cohesion, Muslim integration through respect for scriptural diversity, and encouragement of political pluralism.
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Al-Qaeda Warns of Attacks on West
Time Magazine
5th September 2008
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Quilliam is the Outcome of Collective History
[please note that the article has been published under the title “British subjects – not God’s” - a title chosen by Prospect not by the author]
Prospect magazine
September 2008
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Frustrated Love and Forced Marriage - Need for a Muslim Marriage Contract
The Guardian
20th August 2008 -
The Right and Wrong Voices - Response by Maajid Nawaz
Counter Terrorism Blog
15th August 2008 -
Loving God and Neighbour in Word and Deed: Implications for Christians and Muslims
Yale Divinity School - Shaikh Habib Ali al-Jifri and T J Winter among others
30th July 2008 -
Best of Times, Worst of Times: Ed Husain
The Sunday Times
10th August 2008 -
'New Shariah Law Marriage Contract Gives Muslim Women Rights'
The Telegraph
8th August 2008 -
Maajid Nawaz Speaks to Riazat Butt
'We Have Cross-Party Support'
The Guardian
21st July 2008 -
Hearts & Souls
BBC World Service
18th July 2008 -
Doing Their Own Thing
The Economist
17th July 2008 -
Renunciation and Escalation: Conflicting Tides on the War on Terror
Baltimore Chronicle & Sentinel
17th July 2008
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Why Terrorists Quit: Gaining from al-Qaeda's Losses
Michael Jacobson
16th July 2008 -
Way Back From Islamism
Policy Watch Featuring Maajid Nawaz
16th July 2008 -
Former Islamist Renounces Ideology
The Jerusalem Post
13th July 2008 -
Red Tape nearly Stops Testimony by Former "Islamic" Radical
Jeff Stein
10th July 2008 -
Maajid Nawaz, Former Senior Official in Hizb ut-Tahrir, to Testify before US Congress
Andrew Cochran
10th July 2008 -
Re-Painting the Face of British Islam
08th July 2008 Daily News Egypt
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Killing Terror with Kindness
Shiraz Maher on Newsnight
9th July 2008 -
Stop Pandering to the Islamist Extremists
Ed Husain in the Evening Standard
7th July 2008 -
He Saw the Light From the Jaws of "Jihad"
The Gulf News13th June 2008
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Maajid Nawaz Studio Debate with Azzam Tamimi on Newsnight
22nd April 2008
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7/7 Accused had Afghan Training
BBC NEWS20th May 2008
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Mourchidat - Morroco's Female Muslim Clerics
The Telegraph26th April 2008
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Demise of al-Qa'eda in Sight, US Official Says
Alex Spillus in The Telegraph
15 May 2008
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Credo: Maajid Nawaz
Interview in The Independent
18th May 2008
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New Group to Combat Extremism SKY NEWS
22nd April 2008
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Extremists Change Sides - The Launch of Quilliam Foundation CNN
22nd April 2008
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Interview with Maajid Nawaz Regarding Launch of Quilliam Foundation by Fox News
22nd April 2008
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It is Ludicrous to Dismiss us as Neocon Former Extremists
Maajid Nawaz in The Guardian
25th April 2008 -
Ed Husain in Qatar Airways In-Flight Magazine
April 2008 -
Importing Imams from Pakistan is Irrelevant
Aftab Ahmed Malik in The Birmingham Post
24th April 2008 -
W H Quilliam -
Britain's First Muslim Activist?
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Luton Central Mosque Hosts Quilliam Directors
26th July 2008 -
Ed Husain at ISB's 2008 Summer Camp
19th July 2008
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Maajid Nawaz: Roots of Violent Islamist Extremism and Efforts to Counter it - US Senate
Washington (HSGAC) View Real-Player Version
10th July 2008
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Maajid Nawaz: Uniting Against Extremism
Homeland Security Policy Institute
11th July 2008 -
Maajid Nawaz: Way Back From Islamism
Washington Institute for Near Eastern Policy
11th July 2008 -
Maajid Nawaz Speaks at the Center for National Policy Washington
9th July 2008 -
Ed Husain in British Muslim Delegation to Egypt
July 2008 -
Rashad Ali Speaks at CLG Seminar - Preventing Violent Extremism
9th July 2008 -
Maajid Nawaz Addresses London Probation Services
London Probation Headquarters
8th July 2008 -
Maajid Nawaz on 'Islam and Liberal Democracy: Are they Compatible?'
CIVITAS30th June 2008
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New - 'Critical Muslims' in Denmark Debate: 'Hizb ut-Tahrir, Should they be Banned?' by Maajid Nawaz and Ed Husain
4th April 2008 -
Ed Husain in Scotland's Tackling Terrorism Conference
20th June 2008
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Rashad Ali speaks at IDeA Conference, London
10th June 2008 -
Maajid Nawaz Speaks at IGPB Conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland
7th May 2008 -
Maajid Nawaz & Dawud Masieh visit Dublin, Ireland
3rd May 2008 -
Maajid Nawaz on 'Understanding Islamism' Hampshire Police
23rd April 2008
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Ed Husain Speaks at London Book Fair
14th of April 2008 -
Maajid Nawaz speaks at IISS briefing
9th April, 2008 -
Maajid Nawaz and Ed Husain visit Copenhagen, Denmark
3rd - 5th April, 2008 -
Maajid Nawaz and Ed Husain in Vienna, Austria
1st - 3rd April, 2008 -
Rashad Ali visits Belfast, Northern Ireland
1st April, 2008 -
Maajid Nawaz and Ed Husain in Athens, Greece
30-31 March, 2008 -
Ed Husain Wins at
Doha Debates, Qatar
3rd March 2008
Doha Debate
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Rashad Ali speaks at
Institute of Ideas with
Bishopsgate Institute
Thursday 6 March, 7pm
Still the opium of the masses?
Religion and radicalism -
Ed Husain on BBC Radio 4's
'Any Questions?'
29th February 2008 -
Maajid Nawaz and Ed Husain Speak at the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) Conference
Brighton, 25th February 2008 -
Maajid Nawaz Addresses the Preventing and Tackling Extremism and Radicalisation conference
21st February 2008
