Sohail Ahmed

Sohail Ahmed (born 10 February 1992) Following his coming out as a gay man, While he was a physics student at Queen Mary University in 2015, he said he had witnessed extremism and jihadism at the university.

Background Ahmed is a British citizen of Pakistani Mirpuri descent.

Ahmed said that whilst he was an Islamist, he was involved in propagating his radical views at Sir George Monoux College. He also said that he had radicalized a fellow British Muslim who later went on to join the jihad with the now defunct Islamic State in Syria.

Activism and current work Ahmed has campaigned for LGBT rights in the Muslim world, and against Islamic extremism. He is also an active Labour party member. As of 2021, he was working in the fields of counter-terrorism and counter-extremism, and was an intern at the Henry Jackson Society.