And if you like you can buy the ring...

Or, Quilliam the third (installment).

[T]he world’s first counter-extremism think tank.

Here's Noman Benotman [of the] Quilliam Foundation and former key figure in the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group talking a Policy Exchange wafflefest (he's the first speaker). He's talking about 'surgical strikes' and the like in Libya, even thought the civil war clusterfuck was inevitable by March.

Libyan rebels to probe commander's killing [al-Jazeera]:

The February 17th Martyrs Brigade is a group of hundreds of civilians who took up arms to join the rebellion. With their headquarters in Benghazi, the new fighters participate in the front-line battles with Gaddafi's forces but also act as a semi-official internal security force for the opposition.

Agoury, the special forces commander, said the brigade had an agenda against Younes, because he was previously Gaddafi's interior minister and was involved in crackdowns against conservative, anti-regime Islamic groups.

One of those is the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, which waged a guerrilla campaign against Gaddafi's regime in the 1990s, including assassination attempts on the leader. The LIFG has been connected to al-Qaeda, and some of its members fought against international troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, but it has long foresworn any allegiance with the jihadi group.

Agoury said there were LIFG members in the February 17th Brigade, and that they "don't trust anyone who was with Gaddafi's regime, they wanted revenge."

A member of the brigade said his group had evidence that Younes was a traitor and that the evidence will come out in a few days.

I'm really convinced that these guys are going to bring democracy, peace, universal love and hope to Libya. Who better?

In all seriousness, the front page of the Quilliam site has a link to the Soaraway: London borough 'put under Sharia law'.

Ghaffar Hussain of Quilliam, a counter-extremism and pro-democracy think-tank, said: "Muslims Against Crusades are a lunatic fringe of troublemakers not even taken seriously by genuine extremists, let alone ordinary Muslims who abhor their rhetoric and tactics and find them an embarrassment."

In other words, a total non-story run under a scare headline which would be more true if the verb in the headline had 'NOT' in front of it.

Dozens of posters had been put up - quickly removed by the council - insisting: "You are entering a Shariah controlled zone - Islamic rules enforced."

Yep, that's the Muslim future we should all fear. A few posters "quickly removed by the council" which like all councils is probably run by dhimmi multiculturalists. Some might say that running such a scare story would stoke extremism. All I can say is, if I were billed as combatting extremism, I'd be pretty ashamed to be quoted in a story which, under before you get to all the sensible stuff is mostly racist dogwhistle. I'm sure Sun writers know that their readers don't read stories to the end.