Finance committee  There are two things there. First of all let me shatter some misnomers. In the U.K. 47% of all the people who have been convicted for Islamist terrorism had a university education, and six of them were presidents of U.K. Islamic societies in the universities. Nearly 49% of the pe

Finance committee  Based on what you've just told me, you have made one of the biggest mistakes that we've made over the last five years. Our U.K. government did not focus on non-violent extremism for the last five years. I believe that is one of the main reasons we are faced with the problems we'r

Finance committee  No, you've correctly recognized the trends and patterns. You're right that this is not something new. One of the main differences for us now, living in the U.K., Canada, and the west, is that this has a direct impact and effect on us. That's probably one of the main reasons we a

Finance committee  First of all, the threat is real. We have a team that monitors and follows these individuals in Iraq and Syria, and we work with a number of agencies around the world to provide support. I can go on the record now and say that there are stories of 9-year-olds, 12-year-olds, 14-ye

Finance committee  We have Iran and we have individuals in Saudi Arabia. We have some individuals in Kuwait, and mainly Middle Eastern countries. The two countries that I would say are not as bad as the others are certainly the United Arab Emirates and perhaps, in a fashion, Jordan. Actually, Jorda

Finance committee  No, I think we are not. I think we need to put more pressure on them. I think we need to exercise whatever tools we have at our disposal to actually make sure that they desist in this direct or indirect support for either Islamist or terrorist organizations around the world. In

Finance committee  Yes, absolutely.

Finance committee  For me it's very clear. if somebody is about to break the law, if somebody is preparing to break the law and commit a crime, that comes under “protect” and not under “prevent”. That should be the police's responsibility. The police should get involved in protecting our communitie

Finance committee  Absolutely, there are still countries that are supporting extremist and terrorist organizations around the world.

Finance committee  My area of expertise is Islamist radicalization and Islamist terrorism. Certainly at the top of the list would be Qatar. Either directly—not so much as before, because of pressure from coalition partners, especially the U.S.A.—or through private individuals, Qatar is still fundin

Finance committee  If you look at the way the U.K. government has tackled this problem, it has made some mistakes. Post-2005 and the terrorist attacks in London, we developed a strategy that was called preventing violent extremism. The governments at the time decided they would initially centraliz

Finance committee  I want to give you a quote from the former head of MI6, Richard Dearlove, who described groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood as being, at heart, terrorist organizations. It is clear that a substantial number of British charities belong to the darker side of the global Muslim Bro

Finance committee  If we look at the way terrorist entities operate, the way they generate money, in the past a lot of their money used to come from certain countries in the Middle East, from wealthy individuals, donors, etc. Many of these countries have stopped financing, not because they've had s

Finance committee  Typically we look at the Afghanistan so-called jihad. We saw that the typical age of people going out to join that jihad was between 25 and 35. We're now finding within the western world—this is in North America, Europe, and Australasia—that the age range has come down to between

Finance committee  Absolutely both. We live in a globalized world. One of the most effective recruiting social media accounts, until it was closed down on Twitter, was called “Shami Witness”. Nobody knew who this person was initially, but he was arrested a few months ago. He was an individual who d