Cambridge University hired academic who said western education was ‘threat to Muslims’ and ‘backed terror group’ – Allah's Willing Executioners

Farah Ahmed confirmed in 2010 that she had left the now-proscribed extremist group. UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE The University of Cambridge is facing fresh scrutiny after it emerged that a former member of the now-proscribed extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir was given a role as assistant research professor in the institution’s faculty of education last year. Farah Ahmed, who confirmed in 2010 that she had left the organisation, initially joined Cambridge as a senior research associate in 2024 before taking up her current post. She was involved in supervising postgraduate research and teaching undergraduates. The appointment heaps further pressure on Vice-Chancellor Prof Deborah Prentice, who is already contending with the fallout from the Jason Arday plagiarism affair and an employment tribunal ruling that found she had “shut down” a whistleblower’s grievances. Dr Ahmed authored a Hizb ut-Tahrir pamphlet entitled Education and Identity, first written in 2002 and republished in 2017. In this …