British Muslim Ed Husain is currently a professor at Georgetown University. Previously, he was a member of the Islamic Caliphate revival organization Hizb ut Tahrir. Husain later drifted into various Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated groups (which included people affiliated with Hamas) and circles within the United Kingdom before allegedly disavowing all of them. Once “de-radicalized,” Husain chronicled his experience (in 2007), and subsequently created the ostensibly “anti-Islamist extremism” British organization, The Quilliam Society.
The most basic unresolved question about Husain’s metamorphosis, is why he chose to name his “Muslim anti-Islamist extremism organization”— since disbanded — after William “Abdullah” Quilliam, a lunatic, late 19th century British convert to Islam. Quilliam, a Sharia supremacist, was appointed “Sheikh ul-Islam of the British Isles,” sought the re-creation of a global Caliphate, and, in a March 1896 fatwa, supported the jihadist Sudanese Mahdist state against “infidel” British soldiers.
