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UK: Government deradicalisation plan will brand Muslims with beards as terrorists, say academics

12 July 2015

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"The Government’s flagship counter-radicalisation strategy leads Muslims who grow beards to be labelled as terrorists and could be used to clamp down on anti-austerity and environmental campaigners, hundreds of academics have claimed in an open letter to The Independent."

See the article: Government deradicalisation plan will brand Muslims with beards as terrorists, say academics (Indpendent, link)

And see: Letter (link): "PREVENT will have a chilling effect on open debate, free speech and political dissent - The latest addition to the United Kingdom’s counter-terrorism framework remains fixated on ideology as the primary driver of terrorism"

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