Anti-extremist group wins £2.6m in settlement
Maajid Nawaz — who founded the counter-extremism body Quilliam a year after the 7/7 bombings — had been placed on a list of “enemies of Islam” by the Southern Poverty Law Centre (SPLC), a left-wing civil rights campaign group. When the SPLC refused to remove Nawaz from the list Quilliam threatened to take legal action.
The SPLC then agreed a settlement that included an apology from its president, Richard Cohen, who accepted in a statement that Quilliam makes an “important contribution to public discourse, promoting pluralism…
Source: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/anti-extremist-group-wins-2-6m-in-settlement-p5d3ntzrq
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