Most Prevent ‘suspicious’ referrals are lawfully behaving Muslim children who are traumatized.
Evidence
There is a public debate that is yet to take place about the fact that the majority of these so-called ‘suspicious’ individuals, behaving perfectly lawfully but deemed vulnerable to radicalization, are Muslim schoolchildren, left traumatized after being wrongly regarded as potential terrorists. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 418
Categorization
- SEED: Strong angle for an essay on the hidden costs of securitized pre-crime policy: children as casualties of counter-terrorism.
- QUESTION: Worth chasing the Ward 2017 source on the quality and training of Prevent operators.
- XREF: connects to: UK Prevent duty chills campus free speech and Muslim activism. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 411; Prevent-era Channel referrals of children rose sharply and heavily targeted Muslims — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 417; Muslim children were 44 times more likely than others to be referred to Channel — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 418 (+2 more)
Related
- Prevent-era Channel referrals of children rose sharply and heavily targeted Muslims (similarity 0.91)
- Gross over-referral of Muslims reflects Islamophobic prejudice, not true risk (similarity 0.90)
- Muslim children were 44 times more likely than others to be referred to Channel (similarity 0.87)
- Prevent’s stated all-threats remit masks a clear targeting of Muslims (similarity 0.84)
- Prevent alienates the Muslim communities it claims to engage. (similarity 0.82)
- UK Prevent duty chills campus free speech and Muslim activism. (similarity 0.80)
- Prevent guidance disproportionately targets Islamist extremism despite formally covering all threats. (similarity 0.80)
- Prevent’s first phase explicitly placed its burden on Muslim communities (similarity 0.80)
- Prevent is discriminatory in operation and alienates the Muslims it aims to engage (similarity 0.78)
- Prevent counter-terrorism policy harms and alienates British Muslim communities. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Gross over-referral of Muslims reflects Islamophobic prejudice, not true risk
#expands(0.88) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 419 - Muslim children were 44 times more likely than others to be referred to Channel
#corroborates(0.85) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 418 - Prevent-era Channel referrals of children rose sharply and heavily targeted Muslims
#corroborates(0.82) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 417 - Routine Muslim religious practice is legally treated as evidence of terrorist predisposition
#exemplifies(0.75) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 463