Submission to the Senate of Canada The Standing Senate Committee On Human RightsThe Honourable Senator Salma Ataullahjan, Chair of the Committee Islamophobia in the Senate of CanadaProtected by Parliamentary Immunity January 5, 2023

About CMPAC The Canadian Muslim Public Affairs Council (CMPAC) is a lobby organization established tostrengthen and advance the interests of the growing Canadian Muslim community throughengaging and educating decision-makers and influencing public policy and mobilizingcommunities. CMPAC has been a voice on issues impacting the Muslim community including recommendingpolicy approaches to tackling Islamophobia.

Some examples of contribution to public discourse that is relevant to the Senate’s study onIslamophobia include: The Liberal government must rid the country of systemic Islamophobiahttps://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/november-2021/the-liberal-government-must-rid-the-country-of-systemic-islamophobia/ Issam Saleh: The Conservatives cannot afford to alienate Muslims if they hope to win next timearoundhttps://nationalpost.com/opinion/issam-saleh-the-conservatives-cannot-afford-to-alienate-muslims-if-they-hope-to-win-next-time-around When it comes to Islamophobia, doublespeak seems to be the order of the dayhttps://www.thespec.com/opinion/contributors/2021/06/14/when-it-comes-to-islamophobia-doublespeak-seems-to-be-the-order-of-the-day.html?rf Islamophobia is on the rise during COVID-19https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/october-2020/islamophobia-is-on-the-rise-during-covid-19/ Purpose for the Submission On Thursday, September 22, 2022 the Canadian Muslim Public Affairs Council (CMPAC)testified before the Standing Senate Committee On Human Rights on Islamophobia in Canada.

As part of the remarks, CMPAC’s senior advisor, Khaled Al-Qazzaz, stated the following: “We have also seen lslamophobia present in parliamentary hearings like these under theprevious Conservative government. For instance, the Senate Standing Committee on NationalSecurity, Defence and Veterans Affairs in November 2014 invited Lorenzo Vidino, who isconnected to numerous anti-Muslim think tanks and has been published in various anti-Muslimoutlets. The Senate also invited Thomas Quiggin, a well-known lslamophobe who uses feartactics to drive anti-Muslim hate. Recently, he was part of the leadership of the “Freedom

Convoy” and is deeply connected to Canada’s lslamophobia network. Both were afforded theability to spread misinformation about Muslims while protected by parliamentary immunity.” After several questions by members of the Committee, the Chair requested further submissionson examples.

Impact of these Testimonies In an oped in the National Observer by Faisal Kutty, principal lawyer at Kutty & Associates andserves as an adjunct professor of law at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, titled“Hate should have no parliamentary immunity,” 1 Mr.Kutty sheds light on many examples ofIslamophobia and hate expressed with parliamentary immunity. He states: “But there is one place where anti-Muslim discourse should be least expected, least toleratedand yet, is surprisingly protected: Parliament. Statements made during parliamentaryproceedings are protected under the guise of parliamentary privilege.

Yet, as the alt-right makes inroads into national legislatures and mainstream political partiespander to them, parliamentary privilege is protecting individuals disseminating misinformationand hate against Muslim communities.” He further states: “While Islamophobia must be challenged online and in the courts, one place where it must bestamped out is in Parliament.

Given the necessity of parliamentary privilege, this becomes amatter for Parliament itself to regulate.” Under parliamentary immunity individuals associated with spreading misinformation andanti-Muslim discourse have attached Muslim charities and organizations, as well as Muslimactivists by making unsubstantiated allegations of connections to terrorism and extremism.These remarks in turn have been relied upon by Government, whether the CRA or the CBSA asevidence for actions against organizations or individuals.

For instance, at the Senate standing committee meeting on national security and defence onNov. 24, 2014, Tarek Fatah, once a Toronto Sun columnist, accused Hamilton lawyer HusseinHamdani, then a member of the cross-cultural roundtable on security, of “pushing the Islamistagenda”. Islamophobic websites then relied upon Fatah’s racist allegation to launch a 1 https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/08/07/opinion/hate-should-have-no-parliamentary-immunity

co-ordinated smear campaign against Hamdani, which eventually resulted in his suspensionfrom his position on the roundtable. At the same Senate standing committee meeting where Syed Sohail Raza, an affiliate of theGatestone Institute, insinuated that the Muslim Association of Canada (MAC) and the NationalCouncil of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) are linked to terrorism and play a role in the radicalizationof Canadian Muslims.

Gatestone is funded to advance anti-Muslim and anti-Islam sentiment.Later, in February 2015, then-Conservative senator Daniel Lang invited Marc Lebuis, ananti-Islam blogger, where he accused MAC of being a source of radicalization. All of theseIslamophobic allegations are now part of the parliamentary record, unchecked andunchallenged, courtesy of parliamentary privilege. Additionally, at the February 2015 national security Senate hearing, Marc Lebuis attacked anumber of Muslim lawyers, including myself, with innuendo and mischaracterization of tenuousor even non-existent links and associations. In an

article published by Haroon Siddiqui he explains how the Senate allied anti-Muslim voicesto make unsubstantiated statement against the Muslim community. 2 He states: “The Harperites’ penchant for tarring Muslims with the terrorist brush was starkly on display athearings of the Senate committee on national security, held in the fall of 2014 and spring of2015. The committee did not invite groups representative of Canada’s more than one millionMuslims. Instead it preferred anti-Muslim activists such as Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born critic ofIslam who lives in the United States and is a favourite of Islamophobes.

It also invited a handful of Canadian Muslims who have made a career of attacking otherMuslims. Such witnesses claimed that Muslim militants were crawling under every Canadianminaret. Using parliamentary immunity, they hurled unsubstantiated, indeed false, accusationsagainst Canadian Muslims. The majority Conservative senators harried the witnesses whorefused to go along with the prescribed party line — as illustrated in an exchange with ShahinaSiddiqui.” 2 https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/04/10/how-harper-systematically-mined-anti-muslim-prejudices.html

Recommendations In May 2019, at the House of Commons standing committee on justice and human rightshearing for exploring online hate speech, St. Albert—Edmonton Conservative MP MichaelCooper told witness Faisal Khan Suri, president of the Alberta Muslim Public Affairs Council, heshould be "ashamed" of linking "conservative commentators" to the online history of the QuebecCity mosque shooter. Instead of acknowledging the obvious link between Bissonnette’s online history and hisanti-Muslim act of terror, Cooper tried to further discredit Suri by quoting the manifesto of NewZealand’s Christchurch killer,

an act which would now earn a criminal conviction in NewZealand. Members of Parliament were so appalled by Cooper’s reading of the manifesto into theparliamentary record that, in a rare move, the justice committee unanimously voted to expungeCooper’s comments from the record. Cooper’s removal from the justice committee by his own party and the expungement of hisheinous comments are a precedent in ensuring parliamentary immunity should not be abused tospread hate. Based on this precedent in Parliament, CMPAC is recommending to the Standing Committee onHuman Rights to expunge statements by such individuals.

The Canadian Islamophobia Industry Recently Professor Jasmin Zine published a major report called “The Canadian IslamophobiaIndustry: Mapping Islamophobia’s Ecosystem in the Great White North.” Zine is an expert on the topic of Islamophobia and the author of a recent book titled “UnderSiege: Islamophobia and the 9/11 Generation,” She serves as a consultant on the subject forinternational human rights agencies such as The Council of Europe and the UNESCO.

Her recently released 240-page report based on a four-year study unveils an ecosystem thatcomprises media outlets and Islamophobia influencers, white nationalist groups, fringe-rightpro-zionist groups, self-professed “Muslim dissidents,” think-tanks and their designated securityexperts, and the donors who fund their campaigns. Her report can be found at:https://iphobiacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Canada-Report-2022-1.pdf The report includes details on many of the individuals listed in this submission.

Islamophobia in Senate Hearings Tarek Fatah Testimony:41st Parliament, 2nd SessionIssue No. 11 Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on National Security and Defence Tarek Fatah is a columnist who spreads anti-muslim misinformation and denies the existence ofIslamophobia in Canada. Fatah was born in Pakistan and identifies as a liberal Muslim.

After theSeptember 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, Fatah founded the Muslim CanadianCongress, an organization that claims to “represent the Muslims in Canada who are notcurrently represented by another organization.” Fatah regularlyaccusesprominent North American Muslimorganizations and politicians ofbeing linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, and openly denies the existence of Islamophobia.

Inone of his columns, Fatah dismisses the term “Islamophobia,”using Andrew Cummins’characterization that it is “a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, tomanipulate morons.” Additionally, Fatah falselyclaimedthat the gunman,Alexandre Bissonnette, “was not alone” andthat “his Muslim accomplice has been made state witness to avoid talk of Muslim on Muslimterror,” in response to the Quebec City mosque shooting. Fatah also weaponized the Qur’an byproviding a limited

interpretation of the opening verse from Surah Al-Fatiha while addressingParliamentary committee hearings on Motion 103 and Islamophobia in Canada,claimingthatMuslims “mock Christians and Jews daily.” Fatah has been a vocal opponent of the veil and niqab and hasrepeatedly claimedthat thehijab is a “political flag of the Islamofascist Muslim Brotherhood.” Moreover, Fatah hassupported Maxime Bernier’s viewson immigration andcalled for the Multiculturalism Act to “berevoked for the simple reason that not all cultures are equal.” Fatah is also known for spreading anti-Muslim misinformation. BOOM - an independent digitaljournalism platform that focuses on debunking misinformation - published an

article showing along history of misinformationpeddling communally-chargedmisinformation. In a video, Fatah has defended far-right British white nationalist Tommy Robinson. Fatah has written for the Clarion Project and for the Middle East Forum where he has writtenover 155 articles for their website.

Syed Sohail Raza Testimony:41st Parliament, 2nd SessionIssue No.11 Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on National Security and Defence Syed Sohail Raza, an affiliate of the far-right think tank Gatestone Institute, which is known forpublishing anti-Muslim content.

He is also a board member of the Council for Muslims FacingTomorrow, a reformist Muslim organization thatopposes“bigotry in the name of Islam aspreached and practiced in the mainstream mosques in Canada and across the Muslim world.” Sohail Raza insinuated at a Senate standing committee meeting on national security anddefense on November 24, 2014 that the Muslim Association of Canada (MAC) and the NationalCouncil of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) are linked to terrorism and play a role in the radicalizationof Canadian Muslims.

Sohail Raza also published opinion pieces in The National Telegraph, which has a history ofcarrying anti-Muslim sentiment, linkingIslamic Releifto terrorism and glorification andanti-Semitism, andcriticizing the Emergency National Action Summit on Islamophobia, whichwas announced following the tragic killing of a Muslim family in London, Ontario.

In the piece,Raza claimed that such summits and actions are merely used to "score political points." Sohail Raza is the treasurer of Muslims Facing Tomorrow, founded by Raheel Raza who is aspeaker, writer, and analyst for the Clarion Project and a distinguished senior fellow at theGatestone Institute, both major funders of the Islamophobia industry.

Salim Mansur Testimonies:41st Parliament, 2nd SessionIssue No.12&18 Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on National Security and Defence Salim Mansur is a frequent guest on radio and television shows discussing issues of Muslims,multiculturalism, and radicalization in Canada. He has testified before Canadian parliamentarystanding committees on immigration and public safety.

Mansur is the vice presidentof Muslims Facing Tomorrow and a writer and senior fellow for the Gatestone Institute.According toGeorgetown University, Gatestone hascontinuously released articles designed tofuel concerns about a Muslim takeover of Europe and America. The articles warn that the"Islamization" of Europe would result from the rising Muslim immigration.

Moreover, Gatestonepartnered with The Rebel, a Canadian media company “with a history of bigotry andanti-Semitism,” to produce a series of 12 “cross-branded videos” that promote “paranoid,apocalyptic far-right themes vilifying Muslims and refugees.” Mansur is also a fellow with the Mozuud Freedom Foundation Mozuud Freedom Foundationwhich is a not-for-profit organization founded by Irving Weisdorf.

Weisdorf has denied thatIslamophobia exists, stating that “fear of Islam is justified and is not a “phobia.”Weisdorfhassaid the term “Islamophobia” is a tool with which “forces” influenced by the Brotherhood use toturn Canada into a “Sharia-compliant society.” Mansur opposed Motion M-103, claiming that it “threatens freedom of speech in Canada.”Additionally, hebelievesthat “Muslims, in general,are a ‘third-world’ people whoseunderstanding and practice of Islam remain fixed in their pre-modern cultures,” andsupportedDonald Trump’s 2017 travel ban on people from seven Muslim-majority countries.

Mansur hasdenied that Muslims are “victims of anti-Islamic bigotry” Mansur has testified in 2012 to the house of commons Standing Committee on Citizenship andImmigration that Canada shouldstop immigration fromMuslim countriesand argued thatCanada needs to curtail immigration from Muslim countries.

Marc Lebuis Testimony:41st Parliament, 2nd SessionIssue No.14 Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on National Security and Defence Marc Lebuis is the director of Point de bascule and has many writings published in Islam Watch,a project that belongs to The Middle East Forum (MEF),an American conservative think tank.MEF is known for its many Islamophobic publications and ties to Israel. According to numerousreports, Israel has been identified as a major financier of the Islamophobia industry, and manydonors with ties to Israel have supported anti-Muslim think tanks.

A2015 studythat looked closely atThe Center forAmerican Progress’ report on the roots of theIslamophobia network in America, found that the seven major Islamophobia industry donorsgave nearly $11 million in total to Israel-related causes, indicating that there is an undeniableoverlap in the giving patterns of at least four out of the seven foundations; funding Islamophobiaand giving undeniably significant amounts to Zionist projects.

Islamophobic misinformation fromIsrael is not limited to rhetoric but has had dire consequences on the Muslim community inCanada, a prime example of this is the CRA’s audit of IRFAN-Canada. According to areportbythe International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (ICLMG), the majority of the evidence used bythe CRA in IRFAN-Canada’s revocation was from Israel and the United States.

Lebuis is behind many articles on Point de bascule, a far-right, Islamophobic,conspiratorial-style site which describes itself as a resource for exposing “methods and meansused by Islamist organizations and leaders to implement their program in Canada.” Lebuis is an anti-Muslim Montreal blogger who said that mosques and Muslim organizations inCanada were “controlled and financed, proven, by countries known to harbour the most radicalfringes of Muslim, the Wahhabism fringes.” Lebuis called wearing the veil a representation of radicalization.

Lebuis alsoallegedthatmosques and Muslim organizations in Canada were “controlled and financed, proven, bycountries known to harbour the most radical fringes of Muslim, the Wahhabism fringes.” Lebuis in his Senate testimony had said that Jamal Badawi, former professor at the SobeySchool of Business, Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, and also a prolific author on Islam,“started” or “is behind” several Muslim organizations that are part of “the network of the MuslimBrotherhood infrastructure in North America,” and that Badawi urges Muslims “to becomejudges and officials” in order to “take advantage of their position of influence to stop applyingcurrent national legal provisions that are incompatible with sharia law.” Lebuis was echoing suchAmerican Islamophobes as Frank Gaffney, who have said that the Muslim Brotherhood hadinfiltrated the American government.

Lebuis called Toronto lawyer Faisal Kutty “the spokesperson of two Al Qaeda fundingorganizations,” who “consistently defends and promotes people who are known and banned incertain countries.” Kutty teaches law at Osgoode and also taught at Valparaiso University, Ind.He has written extensively on radicalization, including what Muslims must do to stop it. He saidhe has worked with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Canadian Security IntelligenceService, and been consulted by the U.S. House Homeland Security Subcommittee onIntelligence.

Lebuis accused Hamilton lawyer Hussein Hamdani of having lobbied Ottawa to stop using“Islamic” in relation to terrorism by Muslims, and having done so with “a delegation of Islamistleaders linked to the Muslim Brotherhood infrastructure operating in Canada.” Since 2005,Hamdani had been a member of the federal government’s Cross-Cultural Roundtable onNational Security, which fosters dialogue between the government and leaders of variouscultural communities on national security matters. Within weeks of Lebuis’s accusation, theHarper government removed Hamdani from the federal advisory committee.

Some of his writings are also published by MEF, a right-wing anti-Islam think tank that spreadsmisinformation.Islamist Watchwas created by MEFto stop “Islamists” in the West. IslamistWatch contains a compilation of “extensive profiles of organizations, activists and clericsbelonging [to] various Islamist networks.” Among the organizations listed are the Council onAmerican-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest Muslim civil liberties organization, the MuslimPublic Affairs Council, and the Muslims Student Association.

Lorenzo Vidino Testimony:41st Parliament, 2nd SessionIssue No.17 Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on National Security and Defence Dr. Lorenzo Vidino is the Director of the Program on Extremism at George WashingtonUniversity. He is an Italian American legal scholar whose research promotes conspiracy theoriesabout the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe and the United States.

Vidino is connected tonumerous anti-Muslim think tanks in the United States and Europe, and has published invarious anti-Muslim outlets. 3 While Vidino has publisheda number of publications about theMuslim Brotherhood, in an interview with NPR in March 2017 Vidino stated, “I’ve been studyingthe brotherhood for 15 years…I maybe understand 10 percent of how it works.” Most of hispublications are with anti-Muslim institutions, with a history of producing anti-Muslim researchand promoting voices supporting anti-Muslim legislation.

Vidino has a history of advancingunscientific theories and anti-Muslim tropes. 4 In 2004 and 2005, Vidino served as Senior Analyst with Steve Emerson’s Investigative Projecton Terrorism (IPT) in Washington. In November 2005, Vidino gave an interview to the far-right, anti-Muslim website FrontPageMagazine. In late 2005, Vidino published an

article titled “The Muslim Brotherhood’s Conquestof Europe” in the Middle East Quarterly (MEQ), which is published by Daniel Pipes’ anti-MuslimMiddle East Forum (MEF). MEF is a research institute bankrolled by wealthy right-wing donorsand MEF itself financially supports right-wing leaders and their activities. Vidino has beenchargedwith promoting conspiracytheories about the Muslim Brotherhood andis connected to a number of anti-Muslim think-tanks in the US and Europe.

In November 2006,Vidinopublishedan essay titled “Aims and Methodsof Europe’s Muslim Brotherhood” for theHudson Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank with a history of ant-Muslim actions. Furthermore, He advises the Austrian Documentation Center for Political Islam, an organizationthat co-published the highly disputed 'Islam map', which shows the locations of more than600mosques and Muslim associations. with the Austriangovernment. Vidinohas maintainedconnections with many anti-Muslimorganizations and writers in theUnited States and Europe.

In 2004 and 2005, Vidino served as Senior Analyst with SteveEmerson’s Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) in Washington, D.C. Emerson has a longhistory of propagating anti-Muslim conspiracy theories. 4 https://bridge.georgetown.edu/research/factsheet-common-anti-muslim-tropes-2 3 https://bridge.georgetown.edu/research/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino/

Matthew Levitt Testimony:41st Parliament, 2nd SessionIssue No.1742nd Parliament, 1st SessionIssue No.12 Matthew Levitt is a Fromer-Wexler Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy(WINEP), a Washington, D.C.-based pro-Israel American think tank, and the director of theJeanette and Eli Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence. He is currently theDirector of the Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at The Washington Institute.M.J.

Rosenberg, who has worked on Capitol Hill for various Democratic members of the Houseand Senate for 15 years,criticized the WINEPforbeing the think tank of the pro-Israel lobbyinggroup American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). AIPAC is a pro-Israel advocacy groupthat has long been running attack ads against Israel’s critics in Congress. AIPACfacedaccusations of Islamophobiaand incitement after doublingdown on attacks againstMuslim-American congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.

Dozens of Jewish-Americanfigures working in policy, politics, and advocacy havecondemned AIPAC’s actionin aletter.Additionally, AIPAC has made financial contributions to individuals and organizations in theIslamophobia Network. Levitt is probably the most commonly cited “terrorism expert” by anti-Muslim groups. Previously,he served as: counterterrorism intelligence analyst at the FBI; deputy assistant secretary forintelligence and analysis at the Department of the Treasury; and counterterrorism advisor at theState Department.

Levitt sits on the board of advisors of the Foundation for Defence of Democracies (FDD), whichEli Clifton of Salon news website has called “Washington’s premiere hawkish think tank”. TheFoundation for Defence of Democracies (FDD)is linkedto the European Foundation forDemocracy (EFD) - a think tank whose content focuses on defaming Muslim civil societyorganizations and attempts to exclude such organizations from the European political field. FDDis also a recipient of the William Rosenwald Family fund, one of the top seven funders of the‘Islamophobia Network’ as mentioned inThe Centerfor American Progress’ report.

His work on terrorism has been subjected to widespread criticism by both journalists andacademics.Heather Frizzell in her thesis in WashingtonUniversitystates that “over the courseof his testimony, Dr. Levitt makes several statements about regular Muslim practices andradicalized individuals, then never defines the difference between the two, nor the line whereone supposedly gives way to another. The overall effect of these repetitive claims is the erasureof the alleged line drawn between “normal” and “radicalized” Muslims, making it impossible toknow which is which.”

Ayaan Hirsi Ali Testimony:41st Parliament, 2nd SessionIssue No.19 About: Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somali-born Dutch American activist, writer, and politician known for herviews on Islam and its compatibility with Western democratic values. She has written severalinternationally bestsellingautobiographical booksand co-wrote the movie "Submission," whichcritiques Islam's treatment of women. Hirsi Ali has also been a member of parliament in theNetherlands, where she made headlines foraccusingthe Prophet Muhammad of pedophiliainan interview.

She lateradmitted to lyingabout beingforced into marriage in order to obtainasylum, though she claimed that her party was aware of the deception.

Hirsi Ali moved to the United States and works with theAmerican Enterprise Institute, where shehasstatedthat "The western world would be wise torecognize the realities of Islam, a religionlaid down in writing over a millennium ago with violence and oppression at its heart.”Intestimony before the United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and GovernmentalAffairs, shestatedthat “Islam is not just a religionas most Western citizens recognize the term“religion,” a faith; it is also a political ideology, a legal order, and in many ways also a militarydoctrine associated with the campaigns of the Prophet Muhammad.” Hirsi Ali is the founder of the AHA Foundation and a founding member of the Champions forLiberty Against the Reality of Islamist Tyranny (CLARITy)Coalition, which aims to build adiverse group of "Muslim reformers," ex-Muslims, activists, writers, academics, and others topush back against what it sees as the "dangerous ideology of Islamist.” In 2016, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)includedHirsi Ali in its list of “anti-Muslimextremists” for “position[ing] herself as an ex-Muslim champion of women’s rights.” SPLCdescribes her “anti-Muslim rhetoric” as “remarkably toxic.”

Haras Rafiq Testimony:41st Parliament, 2nd SessionIssue No.16 Haras Rafiq is a trustee of the charityMuslims Against Antisemitismin the United Kingdom.Since 2004, Rafiq has worked as a Counter-Extremism and Counter-Terrorism expert.Furthermore, Rafiq served as CEO and Executive Board Member of Quilliam International for 7years. The organization has been criticized by many civil rights organizations because the think-tank’sviews are based on faulty science and only seek to criminalize and securitize Muslims.

Quilliamhas historically supported the U.K. government’s Prevent strategy aimed at preventing“radicalization.” Prevent has been criticized by government officials, human rights experts,academics, teachers, and community organizers for securitizing and criminalizing Muslims. Rafiq stated in the Parliamentary meeting of theStandingCommittee on Finance “The way they [Islamists] do this is no different from the way fascism or communism hasbeen spread. They build a number of entities within different spaces in our society,whether they provide education or pastoral care, and so on.

Then by building their ownindividual capacity and education, they persuade them to come and join their gang ortheir club. They then, obviously, move them along through the grievance-basedprocess.” The Quilliam Foundation is a "counter-extremism" think tank that hascollaborated with anumber of anti-Muslim individuals and organizations.The organization has called for tougheraction against "nonviolent extremism" and supports CVE policies, which many civil rightsorganizations claim are based on flawed science and seek to criminalize and securitizeMuslims.

Quilliam has previously worked with the Henry Jackson Society, a think tank whose AssociateDirector, Douglass Murray, published in June 2017 a piece in The Sun, declaring that the UKneeds “less Islam.” In 2015, Quilliam signed on to a full-page advert in the New York Times, taken out by GatestoneInstitute, calling on Muslims to condemn worldwide violence and implying that the explanationfor such violence was Islam.