article_snippet: CAGE said CAGE accepted the loss of funding from the Roddick Foundation and the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust.
article_snippet: But CAGE blamed a "neo-conservative" leadership on the U.K.'s Charity Commission for pressuring the two charities to halt funding.
article_snippet: Both of the two charities have played a significant role in contributing to the development of Muslim civil society here in the UK," CAGE spokesperson Amandla Thomas-Johnson said Friday.
article_snippet: The termination of funding came after the U.K.'s Charity Commissiontook robust action" and cited how "public statements by CAGE officials heightened concerns about the use of charitable funds to support CAGE officials activities," the U.K.'s Charity Commission said in a statement.
article_snippet: the U.K.'s Charity Commission didn't specify those statements by CAGE, but stated that "in our view, those statements by CAGE increased the threat to public trust and confidence in charity and raised clear questions for a charity considering funding CAGE's activities as to how the trustees of those charities could comply with those charities legal duties as charity trustees," the U.K.'s Charity Commission said.
article_snippet: CAGE is not a charity but has been in part funded by British charities.
article_snippet: CAGE said the U.K.'s Charity Commission had worked with Emwazi and indicated that British authorities' tactics pushed CAGE to radicalize.
article_snippet: In acknowledging the funding losses, CAGE criticized the commission.
article_snippet: Supporters of CAGE tweeted Supporters of CAGE criticism of the commission and the two philanthropies' decision to terminate funding.
highlights_snippet: UK Charity Commission takes "robust action" against Muslim advocacy group CAGE .
  
highlights_snippet: Two charities under commission's regulation no longer fund CAGE .
  