The Guardian reports on a study done by an advocacy group that the Prevent scheme, which is claimed to be needed for anti-radicalisation purposes, is instilling “fear, suspicion and censorship” on university campuses. Just Yorkshire conducted interviews with 36 Muslim students, academics and...
Teachers have claimed the Prevent strategy is stigmatising pupils and harming efforts at inclusion. In surveys conducted by the universities of Coventry, Durham and Huddersfield, staff at schools and colleges said they were worried Prevent was stigmatising Muslim students and stopping them from...
The Church of England chief for education, Derek Holloway, has warned that laws allowing children to be exempt from learning about wider religious views – particularly Islam – are ‘dangerous’ and only encourage religious hatred. Holloway has argued that parents should be banned...
The Middle East Eye reported yesterday on comments made by Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, noted for being the first British Muslim woman to have held a cabinet post in the UK government. In an interview for the Sunday Times on 19 March ahead of the release of her book The Enemy Within: A Tale of Muslim...
The Times yesterday published yet another article trailing the Louise Casey review report with a column by Rachel Sylvester claiming the “hard left are sabotaging anti-extremism plans.” Sylvester opens with the case of a Muslim pupil who was supposedly marked out for the Channel intervention...
The Daily Mail reports on the interview on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme this morning with the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, David Anderson QC, in which he repeated his argument that the Government’s Prevent strategy is “fuelling distrust” among Muslim communities. The...
There was an disturbing editorial in The Times newspaper last week coinciding with the publication of the report by the select committee for Women and Equalities, which found that the government’s Prevent programme was compounding inequalities experienced by Muslims through its failure to...
The Joint Committee on Human Rights today published a report following its inquiry into the Counter-Extremism Strategy, Prevent and the proposed Extremism Bill. The committee’s inquiry was intended to review the proposals in the Government’s announced Extremism Bill, declared in the 2015...
The Guardian runs a number of articles today on the report published by the civil rights organisation, CAGE, detailing the anti-extremism projects disseminated by the Prevent linked Research, Information and Communications Unit (RICU) using “grassroots” initiatives as a front for government...
The Guardian reports on warning by Maina Kiai, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, who has said the Government’s Prevent programme risks “promoting extremism, rather than countering it.” Kiai who has been on a three day...
