The Times discloses an email sent by a police officer in the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit to community groups involved in the region’s Prevent programme that suggests that police forces are monitoring nurseries and children as young as four in their counter-radicalisation efforts....
Further to the advice of the Community Security Trust urging British Jews to stay away from Stop Islamisation of Europe’s (SIOE) demonstration against Harrow central mosque on December 13th, Jewish leaders in Harrow have declared their solidarity with local Muslims against “those whose...
Read the transcript of shadow home secretary, Chris Grayling’s speech, ‘Radicalism is a domestic and international challenge‘, to the Heritage Foundation in Washington today. Excerpted from the speech: ‘Today I want to set out how a Conservative Government in Britain...
The subject of two Muslim schools run by the Islamic Shakhsiyah Foundation, which the Conservative leader yesterday claimed had links to Hizb ut-Tahrir, features in many of today’s newspapers (Independent, Express, Mail, Telegraph), as Cameron retreats over claims he made that the schools...
ENGAGE has replied to the letter from the Home Secretary, the Rt. Hon. Alan Johnson MP, concerning the Guardian’s disclosure of the Prevent programme being used to spy on British Muslims. Read our reply here. You can read our initial letter here, and the Home Secretary’s response, here.
You can read the transcript of the speech on Afghanistan given by the Prime Minister yesterday at the Royal College of Defence Studies, here. The PM, speaking on the UK’s enduring commitment to fighting the threat of terrorism at source, said: ‘In the last decade, in hundreds...
The Committee on Standards in Public Life has today published its report on ‘MPs’ expenses and allowances: Supporting Parliament, safeguarding the taxpayer’. The inquiry was prompted by the MPs’ expenses scandal revealed in the Telegraph some months ago. Launching the report, Sir...
Listen to the speech given by the Home Secretary, Alan Johnson MP, at the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) yesterday on ‘Security in the 21st Century: Global, National, Local’, here (audio file). Speaking on the Government’s Prevent strategy, and recent allegations of the use of the...
The Home Office today has responded to the story published in the Guardian on Saturday 17 October on the use of Prevent to spy on Muslims, and the report by Arun Kundnani of the Institute of Race Relations on ‘Spooked! How not to prevent violent extremism’, with what purports to be a...
The Home Secretary, Alan Johnson, has replied to ENGAGE following our letter to him last week about the Guardian newspaper’s revelations concerning the Prevent agenda and its use to spy on innocent Muslims. Read the Home Secretary’s reply here. ENGAGE will respond in detail to the Home...
