Knee-jerk legislation is not the answer to Islamist extremism
Rushed legislation is effective only in so far as it is immediate – it cannot tackle the underlying causes of crime.
Rushed legislation is effective only in so far as it is immediate – it cannot tackle the underlying causes of crime.
Many communities have already become active in addressing Ofsted’s concerns about far right and Islamist extremism.
For the Home Office, its recently relaunched Prevent strategy was its third attempt at creating an effective counter-extremism strategy.
David Cameron today signalled a tougher stance on groups promoting Islamist extremism in a keynote speech at the Munich Security Conference; we look at the lessons to learn from the States.
When former UCL student Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to detonate a bomb on Christmas Day 2009, the spotlight was on radicalisation of university students.