IERA
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| Founded | 2008 |
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| Registration no. | 1134566 (charity) 06941044 (company) |
| Focus | education, research, Dawah |
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Revenue
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£795,691 (2011) £882,810 (2012) £817,582 (2013) £711,179 (2014) £657,892 (2015) |
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Employees
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6 |
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Volunteers
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35 |
| Slogan | A new era in dawah |
| Mission | Dawah |
| Website | Official website |
IERA (Islamic Education and Research Academy) is an Islamic missionary group founded in the United Kingdom by Anthony ("Abdur Raheem") Green in 2009 for proselytizing Islam. The iERA has been characterised as a hate group by some secular organisations and pundits. iERA has denied these accusations.
iERA is registered as a charity in the UK. In addition, the charity was incorporated as a company on 23 June 2009. The charity is a company limited by guarantee. It has no share capital. (There was also a private limited company called "Islamic Education and Research Academy Ltd" ran by the same people who run iERA, which was registered as a company on 23 December 2008 as company number 06778858, and dissolved on 24 September 2013.)
In the year ending 30 June 2015, the charity's income and expenditure were as follows:
As a UK charity, iERA has registered trustees. The trustees in the period 2010 to 2016 were:
The board of trustees oversee the running of the charity. They are not paid for their work as trustees (though did receive travel and subsistence expenses). The trustees are also directors of iERA for the purpose of company law. The charity pays staff and consultants to do the work of the charity. The charity has paid for the professional services of three of the trustees, and of the sister of one of the trustees.
Former advisory board members are said to have included: Zakir Naik, Hussein Yee, Abdullah Hakim Quick, Haitham Al-Haddad, and Bilal Philips.
In 2010 iERA commissioned a study, undertaken by DJS Research, on negative perceptions of Islam and found that three-quarters of non-Muslims believe Islam was negative for Britain.
In September 2012 iERA wrote a lengthy critique challenging writer Tom Holland's Channel 4 documentary Islam: The Untold Story that questioned parts of the story of the origins of Islam. The Islamic Education and Research Academy said it was "historically inaccurate" and "clearly biased".
iERA projects its message in two main ways. One is by acting as a proactive organization, facilitating missionary activities to promote Islam. The other is by serving as an aggregating organization which coordinates and pays its affiliate preachers. iERA does not have a stated constitution, but the core group, and affiliates that it aggregates, all tend to have ideas centered on the beliefs of Islamist organizations and hate groups such as Hizb ut Tahrir and of Wahaabi and Salafi Islam as a whole.
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