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.
Referrals to the government’s anti-extremism programme for “extreme right-wing views” in the South West of England rose by 69 per cent – overtaking Islamic extremism.
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.
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.
The Conservatives will beef up the counter-radicalisation Prevent strategy if victorious in next month’s general election, the Home Secretary Amber Rudd has said.
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.
The rate of beheadings and Islamist-inspired stabbings has risen 11-fold in the last five years according to a major new report. Terror attacks in the UK also tripled during this period. The 1000-page report by the Henry Jackson Society examines all
Children who attend Fathers4Justice and anti-badger cull protests have been considered for the government’s anti-radicalisation programme, Prevent, set up to deter “violent extremism” and terrorism, an MP has claimed.
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.
A senior counter-terrorism officer has suggested that far-right extremism is a real and growing threat in the North East of England, citing the murder of MP Jo Cox as proof.
Children under ten years old are being referred to the government’s counter-radicalisation programme on an almost daily basis, the latest figures have revealed.
Nearly half of all those deemed to be at risk of becoming radicalised by Islamic State are refusing to take part in the government’s flagship de-radicalisation program, new figures have revealed. MPs are calling for participation to be made mandatory
Some Muslim parents would not speak out if their children went to Syria to fight with terrorists, according to a new study conducted in Birmingham. Muslim parents told academics they feared police would arrest family members who traveled to Syria. The
A poll has revealed the public has no faith in the government’s anti-radicalisation scheme, with 96 per cent of respondents saying it is a failure. The coalition government’s flagship Prevent strategy was unveiled in June 2011 as part of its attack on extremism in
Nearly 4,000 people were referred to the Government’s flagship de-radicalisation scheme last year – almost two and a half times more than the previous year. But although it was designed to tackle Islamic State radicalisation, just one third of those referred
A schoolboy has been hauled out of class and interviewed by police after he accessed the UK Independence Party’s (UKIP’s) website on school premises, which teachers deemed to be “politically incorrect.” His father has reacted furiously, warning “they’re like the
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 Muslim boycott of the government’s anti-radicalisation programme Prevent is being masterminded by Islamists who see any counter-radicalisation programme as an attack on Islam itself, a Muslim organisation that works to de-radicalise young Muslims has said. The Prevent program, which
Muslims are boycotting Prevent, the British government’s anti-radicalisation programme, with community leaders accounting for less than a tenth of extremism tip-offs. The vast majority of tip-offs are instead coming from public services, such as schools and hospitals, or the police.
Imams from the east London borough of Newham have claimed the government’s anti-radicalisation programmes are “divisive” and lead to a “breakdown in trust” with young Muslims. In a statement published by the activist group “Stand Up To Racism”, the religious leaders — supported by
Just last week I overheard three colleagues discussing the evils of the British empire. “I despise it,” one snarled. “Me too! Look at Amritsar, what we did to the Native American Indians and our involvement in the Middle East,” another
It has been revealed that as many as 450 would-be British jihadis have returned to the U.K. and have not been detained when re-entering the country. Returning jihadis pose a “significant” risk to the safety of the U.K. according to the
CAGE – a group formed by former Guantanamo Bay detainees which claims to be a human rights organisation – has stepped back from a clear opportunity to disown comments made by their research director earlier this year, in which he called
Sir Vince Cable, the ex-Business Secretary, has said universities will increasingly ban feminist and right-wing speakers – such as Germaine Greer Nigel Fargae – to not appear “anti-Islamic” now they are compelled to ban “non-violent extremists” in accordance with new
The National Union of Student (NUS) is to break its promises not to work with the Guantanamo Bay detainee and Jihadi-John sympathiser group ‘CAGE’, which called the ISIS terrorist a “beautiful young man”. Just days ago, the president of the
Muslim extremists undemocratically controlled a “hostile” Islamic Society at the University of Westminster, where men refused to talk to women, and got away with it because of a fear of “Islamophobia,” a new report has found. The institution was attended
Environmental campaigners and anti-capitalist activists could be considered terrorists under the government’s Prevent program, designed to counter terrorism, Police have said. They offered the advice to groups of teachers during training sessions on the strategy; teaching unions have reacted furiously.
