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From: Snowshoe	4/23/2008 5:28:14 AM
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British ex-jihadis form ranks for tolerance news.yahoo.com By Mark Rice-Oxley 1 hour, 22 minutes ago LONDON - They once plotted insurrection in Britain. Young, middle-class, and angry, they were the vanguard of a generation of disaffected Muslims that, at its most extreme, gave rise to the July 7, 2005, transportation bombers. But now, in one of the most visible assaults on political Islam from within the British Muslim community, a network of ex-radicals launched on Tuesday a movement to fight the same ideology that they once worked to spread. The Quilliam Foundation – named for a 19th-century British convert to Islam – aims to propagate a tolerant and pluralistic view of Islam among young Muslims who are the most vulnerable to radicalism. Muslim extremists target Jemima Khan with death threats dailymail.co.uk By DAN NEWLING - More by this author » Last updated at 09:44am on 23rd April 2008 Islamic fundamentalists have threatened Jemima Khan with death for supporting a Muslim think-tank which preaches religious tolerance. Mrs Khan is a patron of the Quilliam Foundation, recently set up by two reformed members of the outlawed extremist organisation Hizb ut Tahrir. The organisation has received death threats by phone and email for all involved - one has even referred to Mrs Khan by name, it is believed.

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