(Arab News) Political correctness in the UK had created a “blind spot” in its national security regarding Islamist extremism, the British home secretary said on Wednesday.
Suella Braverman also said not enough had been done to clamp down on a “highly coordinated” Islamic extremist network in the UK.
Her comments came after a review of the UK’s counter-extremism program, Prevent, which concluded that not enough had been done to tackle radicalization within Britain’s Muslim community.
The review, which was commissioned in 2019 and carried out by William Shawcross, ruled that extremist Islamic ideology was often “misinterpreted, misunderstood or even overlooked” by a government focusing too heavily on far-right extremism.
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