Some of the people who created this list – as part of the Prevent strategy – held problematic views about Islam themselves
Who poses a threat to British society? The debate about what counts as extremism, which grew so heated during the years of the “war on terror”, has raised its head again in recent months with the sorry saga of the government’s independent review on Prevent.
The review, which has not yet been published, is controversially expected to encourage the government to divert its attention from the growing threat of the far right and instead focus on Islamist extremism. Yet, only in October, we saw a terror attack by a far-right Islamophobe on an immigration processing centre in Dover, at a time when far-right terror was on the rise.
Miqdaad Versi is a spokesman for the Muslim Council of Britain; he writes in a personal capacity
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