Extremism in Britain: Now the crackdown is launched

The Government is planning a series of tough new measures to combat the growing threat from Islamist extremists.
A leaked draft of the Home Office’s new counter-extremism strategy, seen by The Telegraph, targets Sharia courts and calls for a ban on radicals working unsupervised with children over fears the young could be brainwashed. Other measures include a requirement that staff at job centres identify vulnerable claimants who may become targets for radicalisation, after public outrage at people who hate Britain being able to live off the state. There will also be an introduction of penalties in the benefits system to make people learn English to improve their integration into British society. The rules on granting citizenship will also be tightened to ensure new residents embrace “British values”.

The crackdown is part of a new “get tough” strategy to deal with the perceived growing threat to the UK from Islamist extremists.
It follows the unmasking of “Jihadi John” as Mohammed Emwazi, a 26-year-old university graduate radicalised in London, and the attacks on Paris in January by a French terrorist cell with links to Britain.  The new report, drawn up by the Home Office with a foreword by Theresa May, the Home Secretary, will spearhead a drive to thwart extremists and attempt to prevent the radicalisation of young British Muslims. The Sunday Telegraph has been told that the number of jihadists who have now travelled to Syria to fight with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) has exceeded more than 700. Of those, about 320 “dangerous” jihadists have now returned to the UK after fighting with Isil, reinforcing the urgent need in Whitehall for a new set of anti-extremist measures. The new counter-extremism policy targets a much broader problem than just finding and catching terrorists and aims to tackle radical preachers and individuals who try to brainwash others and encourage them to embrace extremist views.

The new approach strengthens Mrs May’s grip on how the Government tackles extremists. Responsibility previously lay with Eric Pickles at the Department for Communities and Local Government. But his department has attracted criticism within government for being too sympathetic to Islamist groups. Last year, Mrs May promised to “undermine and eliminate extremism in all its forms”. The Home Office draft document says it is not “primarily” directed at terrorism, but at behaviour which, while “often legal”, is said to cause social division and “very significant damage to our communities”. Such behaviour includes hate speech by extremist preachers, the activities of some local authorities and plots such as the “Trojan Horse” conspiracy in Birmingham where hardline Muslims pushed out secular head teachers to Islamise non-faith state schools.
Other extremist behaviour targeted under the crackdown is likely to include violence against women, such as female genital mutilation and honour killings. The strategy’s publication has been delayed for months amid arguments about how strongly worded it should be.
The Sunday Telegraph understands that it will be published before Parliament is dissolved for the general election at the end of the month but could be implemented immediately.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/11457174/Extremism-in-Britain-Now-the-crackdown-is-launched.html

It's about time, should have been done years ago, it wasn't, for fear of being called "racist".

Brasidas wrote:...new counter-extremism strategy, seen by The Telegraph, targets Sharia courts and calls for a ban on radicals working unsupervised with children over fears the young could be brainwashed.

Only in a socialist country could they get away with such abject social management. Does "working unsupervised with children" include being a mother?

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Brasidas wrote:...new counter-extremism strategy, seen by The Telegraph, targets Sharia courts and calls for a ban on radicals working unsupervised with children over fears the young could be brainwashed.

Only in a socialist country could they get away with such abject social management.  Does "working unsupervised with children" include being a mother?

Why are you asking me?

Brasidas wrote:

Original Quill wrote:

Only in a socialist country could they get away with such abject social management.  Does "working unsupervised with children" include being a mother?

Why are you asking me?

It wasn't so much a question put to you, as a question in general put to the premises...you were mentioning a "new counter-extremism strategy."

Original Quill wrote:

Brasidas wrote:

Why are you asking me?

It wasn't so much a question put to you, as a question in general put to the premises...you were mentioning a "new counter-extremism strategy."

I am just posting a news article that is up for debate, where I have made no views, you have just assumed I back the views

To add to my last point, yes we need measures in place but feel these measures could be absued, so I am not sure either way as of yet if they will be beneficial or not.

Brasidas wrote:

Original Quill wrote:

It wasn't so much a question put to you, as a question in general put to the premises...you were mentioning a "new counter-extremism strategy."

I am just posting a news article that is up for debate, where I have made no views, you have just assumed I back the views

I haven't assumed anything, my friend. Don't be defensive...I've got your back. Lol.

Original Quill wrote:

Brasidas wrote:


I am just posting a news article that is up for debate, where I have made no views, you have just assumed I back the views

I haven't assumed anything, my friend.  Don't be defensive...I've got your back.  Lol.

lol not being defensive but 100% accurate

Brasidas wrote:

Original Quill wrote:

I haven't assumed anything, my friend.  Don't be defensive...I've got your back.  Lol.

lol not being defensive but 100% accurate

But gratuitous.