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On last night’s edition of BBC Question Time (a long-running British political discussion show), the panel was asked to discuss counter-radicalisation efforts in British schools. This then prompted a young woman in the audience to describe the policies already in effect at her college.
At her place of study, the girl reported, library computers automatically turn off when a student clicks on a website including the words ‘ISIS’, ‘Jihad’, ‘Islamism’ and similar terms. She added that this is also the case when the website in question is unaffiliated with Islam, such as the Daily Telegraph, Guardian and, presumably, this blog.
The host of the programme David Dimbleby reacted by calling the measure ‘extraordinary’… To that I would add the terms ‘counterproductive’ and ‘illogical’.
The very last thing we need is for a generation of British students to spend their (psychologically) formative years in the shade of political ignorance. Since it is fair to guess that the fallout from Islamisation will be the chief concern to these youngsters in the future, it is surely preferable that they be forewarned from as early an age as possible.
Indeed, ignorance of Islam, as well as being a failure of duty on the part of British educators, will also risk creating more Islam.
As Muslims increase as a percentage of Britain’s youth population, non-Muslim students will increasingly find themselves (especially in inner-city areas) in shared learning environments with believers. If the non-believers in this situation are never taught the downsides of Islam, the institutions will quickly lose their diversity entirely and become simply Muslim. After all, how can young White and non-Muslim BME kids be expected to resist aggressive conversion if even our roughest criminals in prison cannot?
That isn’t a risk worth taking in my opinion. Children should be given as much information about Jihadism as they are given about HIV and Gonorrhoea.
As to counter-radicalisation in general, I don’t believe any effort by government will be successful. Since the ministers charged with overseeing a multi-cultural society will never speak frankly about the deficiencies of one particular part of it, no measure getting to the root of the issue will ever be attempted.
Islamist terrorism is not the result of a misunderstanding of Islam, but of an unusually profound understanding of it. How can this be legislated against without legislating against Islam itself?
D, LDN.
Defend the Modern World 
The BBC claimed last week that Denmark had cracked the de-radicalization problem with their approach:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33344898
With numbers so small its hardly conclusive evidence, even if you believe Islam is not really the problem. I think Theresa May’s strategies are just going to alienate and drive the recruitment behind closed doors. If the Muslim population keeps growing so rapidly I think such an approach as this Danish one will become impractical anyway in countries with larger populations, what do you think?
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I’m sceptical about anything the BBC says on this issue.
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I’m sure counselling can work for a few select cases, but not for the majority. Real, hardened Islamists don’t wait around before travelling abroad. They just go spontaneously, like the family of 12 reported in the mail last week.
Perhaps the guy in the article had a more moderate family. What happens when the family itself is extremist?
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Well indeed and also by comparison with the Danish case mentioned, many of our schools have such a low number of non-Muslims that those non-Muslims themselves would probably be terrified to report any such rants to the authorities. Even if they were party to them, or heard them spoken in English even (so many of our schools seeming dedicated to non-English speaking people nowadays). Typical BBC propaganda.
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“…many of our schools have such a low number of non-Muslims that those non-Muslims themselves would probably be terrified to report any such rants to the authorities.” – This is certainly the case in Birmingham and London. How many times have you heard of a radical Muslim child being reported by school-kids? They must be terrified.
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At my University, one guy wore a Hezbollah hoodie. Other students said nothing about it. Although one kid did say that it was ‘cool’.
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The problem is we have so many extremists that we simply don’t have the resources to ‘deradicalise’ them all.
We face a multi-generational struggle against the forces of Islamic darkness in our midst. The instincts of influential parts of the Left is on the side of Islam, however there are some in the Left who will be amenable to enlightenment on these issues.
The idiot Left like Russell Brand side with jihadis and Islamists because they reflexively hate the Tories and don’t have any idea of what is going on. They are a lost cause. What we need is a grand coalition of white working class, mainstream middle class, and Hindus, Sikhs, Jewish and black / African Christian, and atheist, secularists and Humanists and awoken Christians to this evil. A centrist Conservative Party which is hard and strong on Islamism. And for the Labour Party to be wiped out in the north and midlands as they were in Scotland. The Lefts tacit and open support for Islam in the shape of the Guardian / Russell Brand types shall help this. The Left needs to die. Labour needs to be killed at the ballot box. And then we will see the coalition against Islam / Islamism take real shape.
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I’m hoping that Russell Brand goes through on his promise to emigrate to Syria.
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