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UK: Communities and Local Government Select Committee report: Preventing Violent Extremism

01 March 2010

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Communities and Local Government Select Committee report: Preventing Violent Extremism (pdf). See: Prevent extremism strategy 'stigmatising', warn MPs (BBC News, link) and MPs demand investigation into Muslim 'spy' allegations against Prevent (Guardian, link): "An independent investigation should be held into allegations that a government programme aimed at preventing Muslims from being lured into violent extremism is being used to "spy" on them," and "Reacting to the MPs report, Corinna Ferguson of Liberty said: "Every modern society needs a strong civil society and some kind of intelligence infrastructure. But when you blur the two, you sow the seeds of alienation and disunity. The lives of others are not to be needlessly intruded on by those in positions of trust. First they undermined fair trials; then they turned a blind eye to torture. Now Whitehall securocrats score yet another own goal in the War on Terror.""

See: Institute of Race Relations: Spooked! How not to prevent violent extremism (pdf)

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