According to Charles Moore, former editor of "The Daily Telegraph", in 2008 Ali is a "leading Muslim networker" in Britain who described Al-Qaeda terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki in 2008 as, "one of my favourite speakers...," and "blogged in favour of a man who argued that it was a duty under jihad to kill British and American troops in Iraq." Ali "dissociated himself from al Awlaki" in the wake of the 2009 Fort Hood shooting. Ali has denied that the 2008 Mumbai attacks, and the 2017 Westminster attack were terrorism.