March 2017

Together Against Prevent

Baroness Warsi: Prevent scheme should be paused | BBC News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39399011

Prevent anti-terror scheme must change, says Jeremy Corbyn | BBC News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39398548

When PREVENT officers came knocking on my door | CAGE
https://cage.ngo/article/when-prevent-officers-came-knocking-on-my-door/

Baroness Warsi condemns UK’s Prevent strategy as ‘broken, toxic’ | Middle East Eye
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/baroness-warsis-new-book-uks-prevent-strategy-broken-toxic-702187197

UK government faces calls for review into ‘effectiveness’ of Prevent | Simon Hooper, Middle East Eye
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-government-faces-calls-review-effectiveness-prevent-795761237

UK terror police use International Women’s Day to call for women to report on families | Simon Hooper, Middle East Eye
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-terror-police-use-international-womens-day-urge-women-report-families-1386840304

Madani Younis: Radical Islam play ‘was censored’ | Giverny Masso, The Stage
https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/2017/madani-younis-radical-islam-play-censored/

Police chief snubs ‘Islamist terrorism’ event after criticism | Simon Hooper & Alex Macdonald, Middle East Eye
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/police-chief-fails-appear-henry-jackson-society-panel-after-criticism-1594113197

As a young British Muslim, I’ve been kicked out a mosque and told to stay away from Google – why do I feel like a terrorist? | Yousuf Zubair, The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/muslim-young-british-islam-fundamentalist-terrorism-isis-mosque-religion-why-feel-like-one-a7613491.html

Inclusion of CAGE as “controversial” in PREVENT training manual shows how the policy strangles debate on crucial issues | CAGE
https://cage.ngo/press-release/inclusion-of-cage-as-controversial-in-prevent-training-manual-shows-how-the-policy-strangles-debate-on-crucial-issues/

Students fear crackdown on Palestine activism on UK campuses | Areeb Ullah & Osha Al-Mossallami, Middle East Eye
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/students-fear-crackdown-taking-place-against-palestine-activism-uk-campuses-943958508

What is an extremist? UK government admits it still doesn’t know | Simon Hooper, Middle East Eye
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-uk-government-still-considering-definition-extremism-1299352943

I’m now an extremist. You might be too | David Hearst, Middle East Eye
http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/welcome-extremists-there-are-growing-numbers-us-1943859604