(Sky News) The government’s proposal to redefine extremism will “vilify the wrong people” and “risk more division,” according to a coalition of Muslim organisations.
Signatories include groups which fear they may fall under the new definition announced as part of the government’s new counter-extremism strategy today.
CAGE International, Friends of Al-Aqsa (FOA), Muslim Association of Britain (MAB), Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND), and 5Pillars say “the proposed definition signals an attack on civil liberties by attacking law-abiding individuals and groups that oppose government policy by labelling them as ‘extremist.'”
A spokesperson for the coalition added: “This new extremism definition is a solution looking for a problem.”
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