The new Prevent Strategy has been published to a mixed but mostly positive reception.
In general it’s heartening to see the government finally making a move in the right direction towards challenging extremism in schools, universities and on the internet.
Mehdi Hasan is not happy with it, at all. The usual cognitive dissonances and flawed arguments on display: the sudden inability to determine what “extremism” is when it comes to Islamic extremism but no such (wilful) disability when it comes to recognising the racist extremism of the BNP or the EDL!
Hasan’s biggest gripe is that it fails to address the radicalising effects of foreign policy: [avicenna, The Spittoon] Read more
