23 September 2011

An early test for the new Prevent strategy

.... The Home Affairs Select Committee is currently carrying out an enquiry into violent radicalisation. Maajid Nawaz of Quilliam recently told the committee that "there is no evidence that this new strategy is yet being rolled out on the ground by civil servants to any meaningful degree."

He claimed that there is "no national strategy to challenge non-violent extremism" and that there "is no criteria for engagement with extremists". Is he right? To find an answer, I would start by examining three test cases. [ConservativeHome] Read more