The Guardian today runs a special report on the concluding of the inquest into the London bombings of July 7th and the merciless killing of 52 people on London’s transport network by four young British Muslim men. The report includes an article by Vikram Dodd on the government’s domestic...
A new report, commissioned by the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) and undertaken by the Universities’ Police Science Institute at Cardiff University (UPSI), assessing the effects of policing in delivery of the Government’s Prevent strategy on Muslim communities in Britain is...
The Home Secretary, Theresa May, in a written Ministerial statement presented to the House today has announced the Government’s review of Prevent, a strand in its its counter-terrorism strategy CONTEST. The statement reads: “I am pleased to announce today that the Government are formally...
Following last week’s revelation by the Guardian that the government will dismantle the Prevent programme, the independent think tank Demos has today published a report calling on the coalition government to abolish the £60 million Preventing Violent Extremism programme to make the UK...
It has emerged that the government’s £60m Prevent programme is to ‘be dismantled after a widespread loss of confidence in it within Muslim communities.’ From the Guardian: ‘While the tabloids complained that the [Prevent] programme was funnelling millions of pounds to...
The Daily Telegraph prints a comment piece by Douglas Murray, director of the Centre for Social Cohesion, on the report produced by the CLG select committee on Prevent yesterday. Murray reiterates criticisms made by many Muslim organizations of the disbursement of public funds for no...
The Communities and Local Government select committee (chair, Dr Phyllis Starkey, pictured) has today released its report into Prevent. Following a call for evidence last year and oral evidence sessions held earlier this year, the committee has produced its report into the Prevent stream of...
The Intelligence and Security Committee (chaired by Dr Kim Howells MP, pictured) has released its annual report 2008 -2009 and it contains an interesting and valid critique of the Government’s Prevent programme. The report states: ‘One of the key, and yet most difficult, strands in CONTEST...
The Welsh Assembly has recently launched its community cohesion strategy for Wales on preventing all forms of violent extremism, ‘Getting on Together’. The assembly will also be holding ‘awareness sessions’ focused on tackling threats to cohesion in the Higher and Further Education...
The BBC website yesterday reported that Hizb ut-Tahrir has been denied the opportunity to participate in a student society debate at Queen Mary, University of London on ‘Shariah law – compatible in the modern world?’. Members of the group, Jamal Harwood and Reza Pankhurst, were to take...
