Tag Archives: CTS

Six reasons why Sara Khan is irrelevant - the existence of a commission countering 'extremism' is the real issue in principle...

If we are not very careful right now, then our horror, anger and frustration provoked by the rising and increasingly violent tide of Islamophobia will be misused against us.

The Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) has recently published lectures from its most recent Islamophobia conference,[1] including the following remarks by Professor David Miller. He begins with the bold statement, “The main reason we have Islamophobia is the counterterrorism apparatus. ...

What follows is a summary and some reflections from the four-day hearing at the High Court for the judicial review into the UK Government’s counter-terrorism strategy.[1] It was a great educational experience for me personally, after which I am genuinely ...

PREVENT is dying. We have reached a stage where there is widespread agreement that there are systemic problems with PREVENT. Its decline is to the extent that beneficiaries and proponents of the strategy acknowledge the need to change it.[1] It ...

Part 1 Introduction to the government’s “science” behind what makes a terrorist Advocacy group CAGE published a groundbreaking report entitled “The Science of Pre-Crime: The Secret ‘Radicalisation’ Study Underpinning Prevent” on Thursday detailing how the “scientific” framework used to underpin ...

Click above to watch the video or below to download the podcast Ammar Waraich from the Malik El-Shabbazz Initiative (MESI) interviews Islam21c’s Chief Editor, Dr Salman Butt, on so-called ‘radicalisation’, universities and the Prevent Strategy.  MESI is a new project, ...

Today the Joint Committee on Human Rights, made up of members of the House of Lords and House of Commons, released a report which has finally injected some much-needed logic and reason into the “counter-extremism” arena.[1] Many from within and ...

Why did the government go to such great lengths to cover up its covert funding of some “independent Muslim organisations”? Click above to listen to the latest podcast with your host Dr Salman Butt, and hear what Ibrahim Mohamoud (CAGE), ...

Does Islamophobia now sell better than sex? To break up the festive cheer on Boxing Day the Times published a front page article under a bold title: “Muslims ‘silent on terror’”.[1] It was repeated on their website with a standard ...