Reforming The Radicals
Posted April 13th, 2008 by quarsan
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One key aspect of an anti-terrorism strategy is to deradicalise those who were drawn to extremism. There have been several interesting projects on this that I have heard positive reports from, including a Saudi initiative to train theologians and one in Iraq dealing with potential suicide bombers. In Today's Times Rachel North interviews Musa Ahmet on the eve of the launch of The Quilliam Foundation, a counter extremist think tank, set up by by former activists of radical Islamist organisations. Their website also has some links to interviews with Blairwatch's favourite Islamic scholar, Sheik Hamza Yusuf that are essential viewing.
We've contacted Quilliam and look forward to learning more about them.
In order for any so-called
In order for any so-called "counter-extremism think tank" to be even moderately effective, it should have some degree of credibility and legitimacy among the people it hopes to appeal to. Its quite obvious from the characters that they have on their "Board of Advisors" that this is far from the case. Here is just one example:
Michael Gove:
http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2008/03/michael-gove-mp-we-must-monitor-muslim.html
http://ummahpulse.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=255&Itemid=1
you lose credibility by not calling these people out for their relationships, especially if they enjoy such warm and close political ones at the launch of a new organization that was supposedly designed to find common ground among people to combat extremism.
regards,
Sam
We don't need to approve of
We don't need to approve of everything everyone associated with an organisation has ever done, to express interest in its' activities or to wish them well. Otherwise nobody would support anything.
It's good that there is a broad spectrum represented and we shall watch what happens with great interest.
In all the work done in the subject, it does seem that the most effective way of halting those comitted to violent extremism is by using people formerly committed to such a course of action.
Setup by.... You mean
Setup by....
You mean paid for entirely by the taxpayer. These are just front for publically funded quangos.
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