December 2015

Together Against Prevent

Britain’s police could become ‘thought police’ under plans to clamp down on extremism | Laura Hughes, The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/12066981/Britains-police-could-become-a-thought-police-under-plans-to-clamp-down-on-extremism.html

British Muslims and Prevent – interview with Malia Bouattia of the National Union of Students | Al Jazeera English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07dffX-aeDE

Claims anti-terror strategy forces Aberdeen doctor to spy on his juniors | Andrew Kellock, Aberdeen Press & Journal
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen/788055/undefined-headline-1428/

Myriam Francois-Cerrah reports from London on UK anti-radicalisation | Myriam Francois-Cerrah, TRT World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NupVBO9h2DM

Schools told to monitor internet access ‘to prevent radicalisation’ | Alison Kershaw, Mirror Online
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/schools-told-monitor-internet-access-7054518

Bolton headteacher slams government plan to stop young pupils becoming radicalised | Saiqa Chaudhari, The Bolton News
http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/14151619.Bolton_headteacher_slams_government_plan_to_stop_young_pupils_becoming_radicalised/

Prevent: Why London’s Greens can’t support the Assembly’s counter-extremism report | Jenny Jones, Mayorwatch
http://www.mayorwatch.co.uk/prevent-why-londons-greens-cant-support-the-assemblys-counter-extremism-report/

Society of mosques to boycott ‘racist’ anti-terror Prevent programme | Diane Taylor, The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/17/society-of-mosques-to-boycott-anti-terror-prevent-programme

How did mistrust of mainstream media become a sign of violent extremism? | Julian Petley, Open Democracy
https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourbeeb/julian-petley/is-mistrust-of-mainstream-media-become-sign-of-violent-extremism

Anti-Radicalisation Strategy ‘Alienating Pupils’ | Afua Hirsch, Sky News
http://news.sky.com/story/1605240/anti-radicalisation-strategy-alienating-pupils

Calls to scrap Prevent counter-terrorism strategy in Scotland as it ‘risks radicalising’ Muslim youth | Herald Scotland
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14142135.Calls_to_scrap_Prevent_counter_terrorism_strategy_in_Scotland_as_it__risks_radicalising__Muslim_youth

Prevent programme ‘spying on our young people’, say east London imams | Randeep Ramesh, The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/dec/06/east-london-muslims-prevent-strategy

It’s time to cure Prevent | Philip Brittan, The Sunday Times (£)
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/newsreview/education/TheEducationBlog/article1641308.ece

Young people who question the Government or media may be extremists, officials tell parents | Jon Stone, The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/young-people-who-question-government-policy-or-the-media-may-be-extremists-officials-tell-parents-a6756086.html

Peaceful campaigners branded terrorist threats | Billy Briggs, The Ferret
https://theferret.scot/peaceful-campaigners-branded-terrorist-threats/

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