ICYMI: Quilliam Foundation - co-founded by Maajid Nawaz - prepared a secret list for a top British security official accusing peaceful Muslim groups, politicians, a television channel and a Scotland Yard unit of sharing the ideology of terrorists. https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/aug/04/quilliam-foundation-list-alleged-extremism
ICYMI: The Quilliam Foundation report on grooming gangs was one of its biggest claims to fame, where it claimed 84% of “grooming gang offenders” were Asian. This has been widely debunked by experts & a Home Office report https://twitter.com/miqdaad/status/1059838902930997250?s=19
ICYMI: the Quilliam Foundation chose to attack the definition of Islamophobia in the Jewish Chronicle https://www.thejc.com/comment/comment/we-need-an-effective-definition-of-islamophobia-1.481712
Some more can be seen here
https://bylinetimes.com/2021/01/12/lbc-radio-host-maajid-nawaz-bankrolled-by-us-republican-dark-money/
https://bylinetimes.com/2021/01/12/lbc-radio-host-maajid-nawaz-bankrolled-by-us-republican-dark-money/
About Quilliam's funding, see this piece by @NafeezAhmed https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/the-quilliam-foundation-is-financed-by-tea-party-conservatives-investigated-by-sam-harris-1e43d54f0bee
A little bit about the ideological approach of Quilliam in its early days
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/amuslimmiddleway
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/amuslimmiddleway
And a strong critique of the very foundations of Quilliam from its outset by Ziauddin Sardar
To lionise former extremists feeds anti-Muslim prejudice https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/apr/24/islam.religion
To lionise former extremists feeds anti-Muslim prejudice https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/apr/24/islam.religion
Their website ( https://www.quilliaminternational.com/ ) and Twitter account ( @QuilliamOrg) are no longer active / do not exist
Also this is the employment tribunal ruling against Quilliam where the organisation had to pay the claimant’s claims for unpaid wages, notice pay, holiday pay, a redundancy payment
and unfair dismissal (£20,047.72)
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5e8b119de90e070774c61fc2/Mrs_M_A_Khan_vs_The_Quillanm_Foundation_Ltd-_Judgment.pdf
and unfair dismissal (£20,047.72)
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5e8b119de90e070774c61fc2/Mrs_M_A_Khan_vs_The_Quillanm_Foundation_Ltd-_Judgment.pdf