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Home Secretary Theresa May announced the government’s new anti-terrorism strategy in June.
The plans of changing the current policy (known as Prevent) came after a review of its effectiveness, which concluded that there were some serious flaws in the policy. Prevent had failed to ‘tackle extremist ideology’ which would inspire to become an active terrorist.
The new plans include: withdrawal support from extremist groups (also non-violent ones) and a national blocking list of violent and unlawful websites. Also, terrorist suspects who cannot be prosecuted, can be limited in his or her freedom significantly.
OpinionI can certainly see why the government decided to expand their policy on anti-terrorism, because before these new plans, they were still funding around 20 organisations which are considerd extremist.
However, I'm having difficulties with the idea that the government feels obliged to judge groups on their beliefs and/or ideologies and cut the funding where they see fit. Even the non-violent ones. I feel like they should restrict their policy funding-cuts to only the violent extremist groups. I say this because I think the 'line' is crossed when violence is involved, not when people have a certain opinion.
I agree with you, these matters are always very delicate. Everyone has an opinion though, and the government needed to make a decision and has apparently gone with a plan of action that might have some people feeling like their toes have been stepped upon. It is a ‘better safe than sorry’ plan it would seem.
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