Oscar-winning actor Sir Michael Caine has panned an effort by a UK government program to label the 1964 film Zulu as “extremist” because it shows the victory of British soldiers against an African army in South Africa.
A Christian street preacher was reported to the UK’s counter-terrorism police after saying that a so-called “transwoman” was really a “man in woman’s clothing”.
Reading George Orwell’s 1984 or Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is a sign that you could be a far-right extremist, a leaked document from a UK anti-terrorism programme reportedly claims.
“Populist conservatives” are being referred to Britain’s anti-terror programme over radical Islamists, the author of a report into the system has claimed.
UK counter-terrorism programme focusing on the perceived “mental illness” of would-be perpetrators rather than ideology, a report will claim.
The British taxpayer has allegedly been handed out to radical Islamist organisations that have “promoted extremist narratives”.
A leaked review of a UK counterterrorism strategy has found that it ignored radical Islamists while targeting individuals espousing “mainstream” right-wing views as potential threats.
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.
Sir David Amess MP’s suspected killer has been named as Ali Harbi Ali by Whitehall officials speaking to the press, who say they have identified him as the son of a man who worked for Somalia’s government.
A Christian chaplain at Trent College was fired and reported to the British government’s anti-terrorism programme for delivering a sermon in which he told students that it is acceptable to question and disagree with far-left LGBT ideology being taught at the school.
Officers tasked with monitoring Usman Khan, the convicted terrorist who was released from prison early and stabbed two people to death in London had “no specific training”.
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.
Britain’s school inspectorate Ofsted marked down the Little Ducklings pre-school in Hove, south England, for failing to spot if children as young as two are at risk of becoming jihadists.
A 14-year-old boy “groomed” online by environmental activists was referred to the UK Government’s anti-extremism Prevent programme.
An illegal migrant from Iraq was set to be given the all-clear by the government’s deradicalisation programme shortly before he planted a bomb on a London tube at Parsons Green.
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.
A Labour peer and university boss has said her institution is “decolonizing” it’s curriculum, that student should skip educational events that offend them, and that counter-terror laws silence Muslim and black students.
Some of the UK’s most prominent Islamic groups have sided with a Muslim Member of Parliament and member of the House of Lords to attack the new head of the government’s Commission for Countering Extremism.
The prime minister is to call on investors to boycott social media platforms that do not delete and censor perceived “extremist” views.
Teenagers and children accounted for half of those referred to the government’s counter-terror initiative over a 12 month period, new data reveals.
The 18-year-old Iraqi refugee suspected of planting the Parsons Green ‘bucket bomb’ was reported to the government’s Prevent de-radicalisation scheme just months ago, it has been claimed.
One of London’s most senior counter-terrorism police officers has slammed “sections of the community” who are opposing the government’s de-radicalisation programme for “political” reasons.
A former Guantanamo Bay detainee and Libyan national, who was paid £1 million in compensation by the UK taxpayer, gave some of the money to teenage jihadists who later died as terrorists in Syria.
London’s Reuters reports: A British judge rejected on Wednesday a case brought against the government’s counter-terrorism strategy, according to lawyers for the claimant, a Muslim activist. Salman Butt, 31, had claimed the government’s “Prevent” programme breached his right to free
The brother of London Bridge terrorist Khuram Shazad Butt was working closely with police, met with Labour ministers, and received funding from the government’s anti-radicalisation strategy, Prevent.
A member of UKIP’s youth wing has been labelled “far right” by his school and reported to the Government’s PREVENT de-radicalisation programme, which is designed to stop “young people from being drawn into terrorism”.
“Islamist” Muslim groups and community leaders hinder the fight against terror and are interested only in presenting Muslims “as victims” Britain’s most prominent Muslim lawyer has said. In an interview with the Times, Nazir Afzal warned that British Muslim organisations are
The director of the human rights group CAGE, which campaigns against Islamophobia and anti-terror laws, has been arrested under anti-terror laws, police have confirmed.
University lecturers and teachers have been slammed for resisting the anti-terror measures and insisting they have no duty to report student’s being drawn into violent extremism.
LENS, France (AP) — France’s attempts to counter the radicalization of its young people are in turmoil, with a group home intended to turn them away from Islamic extremism empty, the head of a highly publicized nonprofit convicted of misuse of public funds, and plans to segregate prison inmates suspected of harboring jihadi ideas abandoned.
The ‘human rights’ group CAGE has blamed the Westminster terror attack on “a self perpetuating, vicious cycle of violence” triggered by Western foreign policy, as well as calling for the softening of anti-terror laws.
A 15-year-old British schoolboy, who though “Muslim women shouldn’t be allowed to wear the niqab”, has been treated as a potential terrorist and put through the government’s most strict deradicalisation program.
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.
The Chairman of Birmingham Central Mosque, a Labour city Councillor who is set to become the UK’s second city’s Lord Mayor in May, has labeled the Prime Minister an ‘Islamophobe’ and called for a boycott of the government’s new anti
Lancashire Police have “condemned” a “misleading” report by the BBC, claiming a ten-year-old Muslim boy’s family had been investigated after he accidentally wrote that he lived in a “terrorist” house in his homework, when he meant “terraced”. The police said there were
The de-radicalisation programme run by the British government is being overwhelmed as referrals to it have tripled in the last year. At the same time nearly 100 people newly-suspected of extremist links are referred to British authorities every week. Figures
The battle to tackle radicalism on Britain’s university campuses is being severely hampered by student union leaders and academics, working in conjunction with British Muslim community leaders, a new report has found. Under the guise of protecting freedom of expression,
An open letter published in this morning’s Independent calling for the government to abandon its PREVENT counter-terror strategy has been signed by 280 individuals including known Islamists and terror sympathizers. The letter argues that terrorism is a “social, economic and
