{{short description|British Conservative activist}} {{notability|Biographies|date=June 2016}} '''Dominic Wightman''' is a Conservative Party activist, working in the United Kingdom.<ref name=TheTelegraph20061119> {{cite news | url = http://westminsterjournal.com/en/component/k2/item/627-conservatives-the-only-way.html |title = Working on the internet from an anonymous city office, the shadowy figures exposing Islamic extremism |publisher = The Telegraph |author = Andrew Alderson |date = November 19, 2006 |access-date = 2008-06-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://archive.today/20130630204023/http://westminsterjournal.com/en/component/k2/item/627-conservatives-the-only-way.html |archive-date = June 30, 2013 }} [https://web.archive.org/web/20090129221329/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1534575/Working-on-the-internet-from-an-anonymous-city-office,-the-shadowy-figures-exposing-Islamic-extremism.html mirror] </ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.naymz.com/search/dominic/wightman/1597229 |title=About Mr. Dominic Wightman |publisher=Naymz |access-date=2008-06-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205060647/http://www.naymz.com/search/dominic/wightman/1597229 |archive-date=December 5, 2008 }} </ref><ref name=GlobalPolitician20070322> {{cite news |url=http://www.globalpolitician.com/22567-terror |title=Not bowled over by Tablighi Jamaat |publisher=Global Politician |author=Dominic Wightman |date=March 22, 2007 |access-date=2008-06-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080430124504/http://globalpolitician.com/22567-terror |archive-date=2008-04-30 }} </ref><ref name=TheTelegraph20080419> {{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1555511/Internet-spreads-terror-to-Britain.html | title=Internet spreads terror to Britain | publisher=The Telegraph | author=Andrew Alderson, Miles Goslett | date=April 19, 2008 | access-date=2008-06-23 | quote=Vigil is alarmed by the increased use of the internet by Muslim extremists. Its director, Dominic Whiteman, said: 'It is not a coincidence that the rise of the internet and al-Qaeda were simultaneous. The internet is al-Qaeda's oxygen.' }} </ref> Until 2006 he was the director and spokesman for the VIGIL network, a privately financed counter-terrorism think-tank. He is currently the Editor of the Westminster Journal.<ref>Morality Lost?, Journal Article by Editor Dominic Wightman {{cite web |url=http://westminsterjournal.com/content/view/225/30/ |title=Morality Lost? | westminsterjournal.com |access-date=2009-06-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090526062828/http://westminsterjournal.com/content/view/225/30/ |archive-date=2009-05-26 }}</ref>
Wightman has prepared documents for leading UK politicians.<ref name=GlobalPolitician20070322/>
Wightman and another VIGIL member appeared on the BBC in November 2006, where he spoke about a group named Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain.<ref name=HizbUtTahrirOpenLetter> {{cite news |url = http://www.hizb.org.uk/hizb/press-centre/press-release/a-letter-to-the-director-of-bbc-news-regarding-newsnight-&-vigil.html |title = A letter to the Director of BBC News regarding Newsnight & Vigil |publisher = Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain |author = Imran Waheed |date = 23 November 2006 |access-date = 2008-06-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://archive.today/20090827225131/http://www.hizb.org.uk/hizb/press-centre/press-release/a-letter-to-the-director-of-bbc-news-regarding-newsnight-&-vigil.html |archive-date = 27 August 2009 }} </ref>
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