Press Releases

 20 December 2010Last Wednesday, following the news that the Stockholm suicide bomber was likely radicalised in the UK, Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron told the House of Commons that:“I think if we’re frank on both sides of the House [of Commons], we have not done enough to deal with the...

7 December 2010Quilliam has today published ‘Islamism and Language: How using the wrong words reinforces Islamist narratives’, the latest paper in Quilliam’s ‘Concept Series’ which examines key issues important to commentators, policy-makers and civil servants.‘Islamism and Language’ gives five examples of how carelessly used language may inadvertently reinforce Islamist narratives,...

       Pakistan to host first ever International Youth Conference and FestivalQuilliam’s sister organisation Khudi and events firm Miradore Productions, in collaboration with the Pakistani Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, are proud to announce democratic Pakistan’s first ever International Youth Conference and Festival (IYCF) to be held in Islamabad on December 6-9,...

By Noman Benotman and James Brandon1 December 2010Despite recent reports that attempted Afghan-Taliban talks were successfully infiltrated by a Pakistani ‘impostor’, it is nonetheless clear that senior leaders in both the Taliban [1] and US-led forces in Afghanistan think that a negotiated end to the war is both desirable and...

29 November 2010At the weekend Quilliam published an open letter to the UK’s Channel 4 after the TV station scheduled two first-person films presented by leading figures of the banned Islamist groups al-Muhajiroun/Islam4UK to air on its ‘4thought.tv’ strand. The programmes and their associated promotional material make no reference to...