Government gives £1m to anti-extremist think-tank Quilliam Foundation

by Richard Kerbaj
Times Online
January 20, 2009

http://www.islamist-watch.org/1361/government-gives-1m-to-anti-extremist-think-tank

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Almost £1 million of public money is being given to a think-tank run by two former Islamic extremists, despite reservations being expressed by members of the Government and the Opposition.

The funding is for the Quilliam Foundation — a counter-extremism think-tank set up nine months ago by Ed Husain, a bestselling author, and Maajid Nawaz, a former political prisoner in Egypt — as part of the Government's strategy to combat the radicalisation of British Muslims.

The scale of the funding has aroused concerns that the Government is relying too heavily on a relatively unknown organisation in its desperation to counter extremism.

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