Columns, Sabir on Security - Friday, September 3, 2010 20:58 - 2 Comments

The imminent, and overdue, death of ‘Prevent’

Of all the ill-fated initiatives and programmes introduced by the previous government in its attempt to "fight terrorism", nothing has been as disastrously counter-productive as the 'Prevent' strategy. As Rizwaan Sabir argues, this is a programme that was designed, and implemented, as a direct attack on the Muslim community as a whole. Its demise cannot come too soon.