teven Saxby – Corbynista Vicar for Extremism

I completely appreciate the need for us all to work together to tackle all forms of violent extremism in our world today.
But I think there are also other forms of extremism that we need to tackle. And these are the forms of extremism that are being practised by our own government. You know, I think it is extreme that we are bombing Syria at this time. I was very glad to be walking, marching with others to oppose the bombing of Syria.
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I think it’s extreme that the Prevent agenda, as it works, is stigmatising Muslim children. An absolute disgrace, that we’ve had that questionnaire going out to children in this borough, asking questions which are trying to earmark children as potential extremists. You know, that is an absolute disgrace in our community.

We are here today to make our voices heard clearly, but do not let this be the end. Make it clear to your MP how you feel. If she doesn’t listen then let her know she has blood on her hands. And at the next election – she is out.

How many Muslims are being prevented from flying to the United States just simply because they are Muslim. And that’s something we need to stand up against. It’s another form of extremism, practised by the US government.

Investigations by the Telegraph reveal that several widely reported recent stories about Prevent are false or exaggerated – and many of the supposedly “ordinary Muslim” victims are in fact activists in the campaign, known as Prevent Watch. The stories include a claim which became a cause célèbre for Prevent’s opponents – that a Muslim schoolboy from London was “interrogated like a criminal” for using the phrase “ecoterrorism” in class.
The boy’s mother, Ifhat Smith, who took the story to the media, presented herself as a traumatised ordinary Londoner. She is in fact an activist in the Prevent Watch campaign and a key figure in the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, which believes in replacing secular democratic government with Islamic government.
In a “scathing” court judgment to be published shortly, Mrs Smith’s legal claim against her son’s school and the Government has been dismissed as baseless and she has been ordered to pay £1,000 for wasting court time.

In November, the BBC reported that the east London council of Waltham Forest had mistakenly released the first names of some primary school pupils thought at risk of radicalisation.
The release came as the result of a parent’s Freedom of Information Act request for correspondence about Prevent. The parent concerned, Haras Ahmed, described Prevent as “a disaster from start to finish”, and said he was “appalled [that] children’s data, such sensitive data, are released.”
However, a council spokesman said that the names had been blocked out in the release sent to Mr Ahmed but that the information sent had been “manipulated by a third party to reveal the blocked-out names.”
In the coverage, Mr Ahmed presented himself as merely an ordinary parent. However, he is also an activist in Prevent Watch. An online search would have revealed that he was listed to speak at a meeting with the group only four days after the story aired.

…a Cage activist, regular speaker at its events and co-author of at least three reports for Cage, one of which described Prevent as a “cradle-to-grave police state.”
Mr Mohammed wrote an article in the Socialist Worker for Cage, blaming the security services for the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby and saying that “if anyone radicalised [the killer Michael Adebolajo], it was them.”

Another speaker at Wednesday’s rally will be Weyman Bennett, a hard-Left activist who has falsely claimed that Prevent criminalises any opponent of the Government, stating that “if you question Cameron, you are a non-violent extremist.” Alex Kenny, a member of the NUT’s ruling national executive, will also speak.
As The Telegraph revealed last week, Mr Kenny and other NUT leaders and activists in east London are working with Cage and Mend to undermine Prevent, even though teachers have a legal duty to safeguard pupils from extremism. Rob Ferguson, an NUT activist, orchestrated a statement which falsely claimed that Prevent has caused attempts to ban school prayers and targeted young people “for the views they hold on issues such as government foreign policy.” The NUT has refused to take action against him.

There’s a community that’s very focused every year on a whole week programme for thinking about the genocide in the second world war. And yet they were not aware of something that had happened 20 years ago.

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