(Guardian Series) Redbridge’s counter-terrorism panel will no longer benefit from the advice of a religious cohesion group amid disagreement over a new panel member.
Faith Matters representatives walked away in protest from Redbridge’s Prevent programme advisory group following a vote to admit the former co-ordinator for [the] Islamophobia response unit at MEND, Tahir Butt, to the group.
The borough’s Prevent programme is its counter-extremism policy, which aims to stop people from being recruited, radicalised or encouraged towards terrorism of any kind.
MEND, or Muslim Engagement and Development, is a not-for-profit company that “helps to empower and encourage British Muslims within local communities to be more actively involved in British media and politics,” according to its website.
