Haras rafiq biography

Haras Rafiq is a trustee of the UK Charity Muslims Against Antisemitism.
Haras Rafiq is Quilliam' s CEO and an Executive Board Member.
From his Quilliam biography: Formerly a member of the UK Government task force looking at countering extremism in response to the 2005.

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Haras Rafiq is a trustee of the UK Charity Muslims Against Antisemitism. Haras has been a Counter-Extremism and Counter Terrorism expert since 2004. Furthermore, Haras has served as CEO for 7 years at Quilliam International’s (the world’s first counter Islamism think tank) and as an Executive Board Member. In addition to this, Haras has been a trustee of the UK and French Government Securities Think Tank – The Franco British Council. He was also until 2018 a member of the Advisory Group on Online Terrorist Propaganda at Europol’s European Counter-terrorism Centre (ECTC). Prior to this, Haras has held senior positions within large Corporate Organisations.

Haras has advised numerous UK Prime Ministers and worked with UK Ministers and US Secretaries of State. He has served on many UK Governmental task forces and advisory groups including Prime Minister David Cameron’s Community Engagement Forum (CEF) Task Force and the UK Government’s task force looking at countering extremism/terrorism in response to the 2005 terrorist bombings in London. Haras has testified at various Parliamentar

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Haras Rafiq

Haras Rafiq is managing director of the Quilliam Foundation think tank.

Background

From his Quilliam biography:

Formerly a member of the UK Government task force looking at countering extremism in response to the 2005 terrorist bombings in London, as well as being a peer mentor for IDeA – advising regional government. ^[1]

in addition to this, he has worked on and delivered a number of projects relating to the analysis of radicalisation, as well as the deradicalisation of extremists, and has presented on a number of academic and political platforms, nationally and internationally.

As part of his work, Haras is committed to countering xenophobia and hatred, and has spoken at many conferences and events, including the Global Forum on combating anti-Semitism (December 2009), as well as being a Chair of a working group of the Global Experts’ Forum on anti-Semitism in Ottawa in 2010.

Haras is regularly featured in the media as a commentator and has been a cultural ambassador through the UK Government’s “Projecting British Islam” initiative.

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Quilliam (think tank)

British counter-extremism think-tank

Location

Founded	2008 (2008)
Founder	Ed Husain Maajid Nawaz Rashad Zaman Ali
Dissolved	2021
Key people	Maajid Nawaz Rashad Zaman Ali Haras Rafiq David Toube
Employees	10

Quilliam was a British think tank co-founded in 2008 by Maajid Nawaz that focused on counter-extremism, specifically against Islamism, which it argued represents a desire to impose a given interpretation of Islam on society. Founded as The Quilliam Foundation and based in London, it claimed to lobby government and public institutions for more nuanced policies regarding Islam and on the need for greater democracy in the Muslim world whilst empowering "moderate Muslim" voices. The organisation opposed any Islamist ideology and championed freedom of expression. The critique of Islamist ideology by its founders―Nawaz, Rashad Zaman Ali and Ed Husain―was based, in part, on their personal experiences. Quilliam went into liquidation in 2021.

History

2007: Foundation and terminology

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