Activities:

Al-Tikriti is President and founder of the Cordoba Foundation, and part of UK-based lobby groups for the Muslim Brotherhood.

Al-Tikriti also served as president of the Muslim Association of Britain between 2004 and 2005.

In 2006, al-Tikriti expressed support for “the right of the Iraqis to engage in legitimate resistance against foreign occupation”. Presumably this meant fighting British soldiers too.

He supports Hamas, which he says should not be regarded as a terrorist organization.

He has also written in defense of the Muslim Council of Britain’s decision to boycott Holocaust Memorial Day, describing it as a “principled stand”.

He currently fronts a weekly debate show ‘Sharqun Wa Gharb’ (East and West) on the newly founded Arab TV satellite station ‘Al-Hiwar’ (The Dialogue).

Al-Tikriti has been a vocal supporter of the policies of MB parties across the Middle East and has been described as one of the shrewdest UK-based Brotherhood activists.

Al-Tikriti has been accused of using the Arab Spring as a new opportunity to leverage the MB into positions of power and influence, and perhaps even to acquire new funds from Western sources, through arguing that Western support for the Brotherhood parties can undermine and moderate more extremist Islamist elements.