May 2016

Together Against Prevent

Britain’s Prevent strategy: Potential implications for civil liberties | Ruth Tenne, Redress Information & Analysis
http://www.redressonline.com/2016/05/britains-prevent-strategy-potential-implications-for-civil-liberties/

Operating in a Pre-Crime Space: Prevent and the Strange War on Vulnerability | Anonymous author, The Column
https://thecolumn.net/2015/08/25/operating-in-a-pre-criminal-space-prevent-and-the-strange-war-on-vulnerability/

Exposure to violence, not religious ideology, is the real cause of extremism | Manni Crone, The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/exposure-to-violence-not-religious-ideology-is-the-real-cause-of-extremism-a7049746.html

UK government urged to ‘step back’ from plans to outlaw extremism | Simon Hooper, Middle East Eye
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-government-urged-step-back-plans-outlaw-extremism-1373290485

Does the Home Office think I’m an extremist? | Baroness Jenny Jones, Left Foot Forward
http://leftfootforward.org/2016/05/baroness-jones-does-the-home-office-think-im-an-extremist/

Anti-radicalisation chief says ministers’ plans risk creating ‘thought police’ | Vikram Dodd, The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/may/24/anti-radicalisation-chief-says-ministers-plans-risk-creating-thought-police

Police study links radicalisation to mental health problems | Vikram Dodd, The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/may/20/police-study-radicalisation-mental-health-problems

Prevent strategy ‘isolating’ British Muslims: European watchdog | Simon Hooper, Middle East Eye
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/prevent-isolating-british-muslims-european-human-rights-watchdog-46319864

Labour leader Corbyn calls for reform of Prevent strategy | Simon Hooper, Middle East Eye
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/labour-leader-corbyn-calls-reform-prevent-strategy-1547441159

Muslim students ‘avoiding politics’ over extremism register fears | Areeb Ullah, Middle East Eye
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/muslim-students-avoiding-politics-because-extremism-register-fears-1796803699

‘Prevent, Islamophobia and Civil Liberties’ – Why a National Conference on Prevent is Necessary | Dr Waqas Tufail, Muslimwise (SOAS)
http://blogs.soas.ac.uk/muslimwise/2016/05/11/speakers-corner-prevent-islamophobia-and-civil-liberties-why-a-national-conference-on-prevent-is-necessary-by-dr-waqas-tufail/

Academics speak out against Prevent strategy | Siyang Wei & Louis Ashworth, Varsity (Cambridge University)
http://www.varsity.co.uk/news/10238

BBC Five Live report on Prevent | Adrian Goldberg, BBC Five Live Investigates
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07428ln Download MP3 here [logo-mp3, 43 Mb]

Theresa May’s Prevent bill is extremism in the name of security | Karma Nabulsi, The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/04/theresa-may-prevent-bill-extremism-security-terrorism

Shami Chakrabarti slams ‘Prevent’ strategy at Bristol | Epigram, University of Bristol
http://epigram.org.uk/features/2016/05/shami-chakrabarti-slams-prevent-strategy

Britain’s bid to socially engineer ‘good Muslims’ | Yasmin Khatun Dewan, Middle East Eye
http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/britains-bid-socially-engineer-good-muslims-2009757906

UK government ‘running covert counter-extremism propaganda campaign’ | Simon Hooper, Middle East Eye
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-government-secret-prevent-propaganda-campaign-1746426099

Govt-backed counter-extremist ‘propaganda’ program operating without oversight – report | Russia Today
https://www.rt.com/uk/341707-cage-propaganda-prevent-terrorism/

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