# Dominic Whiteman

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{{short description|British Conservative activist}}
{{notability|Biographies|date=June 2016}}
'''Dominic Wightman''' is a Conservative Party activist, working in the [United Kingdom](/source/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](/source/The_Daily_Telegraph)
 |author      = [Andrew Alderson](/source/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](/source/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](/source/The_Daily_Telegraph)
| author=[Andrew Alderson](/source/Andrew_Alderson), [Miles Goslett](/source/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](/source/VIGIL_network), a privately financed [counter-terrorism](/source/counter-terrorism) [think-tank](/source/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? &#124; 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](/source/BBC) in November 2006, where he spoke about a group named [Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain](/source/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](/source/Hizb_ut-Tahrir_Britain)
 |author      = [Imran Waheed](/source/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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