The UK’s anti-extremism Prevent panels are too soft because they can include teachers and faith leaders and should be cut down in size with priority given to police counter-terrorism and MI5 officers, a review is expected to conclude.
An adviser to the Pentagon’s Counter-Extremism Working Group (CEWG) is warning the Biden administration’s efforts to purge the military of “extremists” could violate individual First Amendment rights.
Baroness Sayeeda Warsi has said the UK must not “become a country that polices thought” and speech, and Muslims who say potentially “extreme” things should be forgiven.
More than 95 per cent of government “deradicalisation” initiatives fail to work, with the people delivering them often too scared to mention religious extremism and choosing to talk about “Islamophobia”, a government report has found.
The British government has funded the development of an online “extremism” filter which technology firms could be legally compelled to use, the Home Secretary has revealed.
The UK has set up two new ‘separation wings’ in prisons to isolate jihadists and other extremists and stop them spreading their murderous ideology.
The government should not “criminalise thought”, the UK’s terror watchdog has said, after ministers revealed new laws criminalising viewing “extreme” online material following a wave of Islamist attacks.
Around 500 people have attended a three-day training camp designed to help Muslims oppose and counter extremism and terrorism within their community.
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia has established a new police unit to fight terrorism and far-right extremism, the prime minister said Wednesday.
Members of a government-funded Muslim anti-extremism organisation praised by the Prime Minister have been found to have made numerous anti-Semitic and homophobic comments on social media. The Birmingham-based charity Odara is believed to have received over £150,000 of taxpayer money
The UK’s largest Muslim organisation has denounced the government’s Prevent counter-terrorism programme and is set to launch an “anti-government” rival within months.
Greater Manchester Police have apologised after an actor shouted “allahu akbar” during a simulated terror attack last night. The staged training exercise took place at the Trafford Centre shopping mall, in which panicking members of the public screamed as a
A Christian group has warned that people opposing gay marriage could be criminalised as the government moves to redefine “non-violent Extremism” in a forthcoming bill. The new counter extremism bill, to be presented in the Queens speech on May 18th, is said
All of Scotland’s major Muslim groups declined to attend the launch of a campaign against violence and discrimination directed towards the Ahmadi sect, as well as the Paris and Brussels terror attacks. Representatives of the local Sikh and Jewish communities, and the
The Federal Bureau Of Investigation has suspended the unveiling of a new counter-radicalization website designed for kids after fringe Islamic advocacy organizations said the anti-terror programming discriminates against Muslims.
