Tag: CTS

Legal Challenge to Prevent Reaches Court of Appeals

Dr. Salman Butt 6 Min Read

This week will see the next significant step along the long path to holding the UK government to account for its policies against so-called “extremism”, including the toxic Prevent policy.

The Windrush scandal is just the tip of the racist iceberg in British politics

Mukhtar Master 5 Min Read

Many of MPs lamenting the Windrush scandal supported the legislation that paved the way for it in the first place—the Immigration Act 2014

Why We Must Reject the ‘Commission for Countering Extremism’

Letters to Islam21c 11 Min Read

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

May is playing a dangerous game exploiting Finsbury Park attack

Dr. Salman Butt 18 Min Read

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 main reason we have Islamophobia is the Counter Terrorism apparatus”

Editor 3 Min Read

The Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) has recently published lectures from its most recent Islamophobia conference, including the following remarks by Professor David Miller. https://youtu.be/kfskI5IXgDI He begins with the bold statement, “The

Summary of Our Legal Case Against Prevent

Dr. Salman Butt 22 Min Read

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. It was a great educational experience

PREVENT: Reform or Reject

Alim Hasan Islam 8 Min Read

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

How do you make a terrorist?

Isa Alam 6 Min Read

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

Interview with Dr Salman Butt on Radicalisation, Universities & PREVENT

Editor 1 Min Read

https://youtu.be/gP7cUHWYpeE 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

Parliamentary Report Criticises ‘Extremism’ Policies

Dr. Salman Butt 18 Min Read

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