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Politicians are not infallible. No one would claim they were. Mistakes are made like with everyone else. But few have been as damaging as when the Labour Government invented its ill-conceived Prevent programme. And it became even worse when Prime Minister, David Cameron, put it on a statutory basis. A new study published last month […]

28th Oct 2016

Prevent Strategy using communities as “lab rats”

Ala Abbas 140 academics and experts, including Noam Chomsky, have signed an open letter protesting against the lack of scrutiny of the scientific evidence underpinning the Government’s Prevent Strategy. The Government has been using the Extremism Risk Guidance 22+ (ERG22+) framework to assess the risk of ‘radicalisation’. The ERG22+ provides the clues to look out […]

28th Oct 2016

Prevent not fit for purpose

Is it radical behaviourism? Or methodological, theoretical, teleological or perhaps even biological? Whatever classification of psychological behaviourism the Government’s Prevent strategy is supposed to be based upon, no one seems to know or least want to reveal the which system as bee agreed upon, if any. But the science behind the so-called ERG22+ (Extremism Risk […]

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The Muslim News Awards for Excellence 2015 was held on March in London to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to the society.

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