Cambridge university hired academic who supported terror group

Farah Ahmed is assistant research professor at the Faculty of Education at CambridgeTOI correspondent from London: Cambridge University hired an academic who once supported proscribed Islamist terror group Hizb ut-Tahrir, described Western education as a “threat” to Muslims and condemned democracy.Farah Ahmed is assistant research professor at the Faculty of Education at Cambridge, the same faculty as Jason Arday, the controversial black professor who was recently forced to quit following allegations of plagiarism.Hizb ut-Tahrir is an international Sunni terror group which aims to establish a caliphate ruled under Islamic law. The group is proscribed in Britain.Ahmed, who was appointed last year to the post where she is responsible for postgraduate research and teaching undergraduates, wro