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03-06-2016

Prevent isn’t just a failure – it hurts


AFTER six years of marginalisation and alienation, six years of rising prejudice and discrimination and the fresh failure of another government policy, is it not time for the Conservatives to admit that their approach on tackling Islamic radicalisation has been a failure? - The Morning Star, 3 June 2016

The Prevent strategy was hailed by its supporters as the protection of British values and clamping down on extremism.

Protecting liberty and tolerance through methods that seemed anything but.

Isn’t that the sign that should tell us the extremists are winning? Britain for a long time now has abandoned policies that respect civil liberties and human rights in chasing after terrorists. But few things are as sinister as the Prevent strategy.

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