Islam in Britain: Children as young as four to be taught about extremism as part of plans to toughen up Prevent strategy, leaked proposals reveal

Tuesday 14 February 2017

Children as young as four to be taught about extremism as part of plans to toughen up Prevent strategy, leaked proposals reveal

Telegraph, Children as young as four to be taught about extremism as part of plans to toughen up Prevent strategy, leaked proposals reveal "According to TES, Sara Khan, co-founder of the counter-extremism organisation Inspire, told a conference last week that there was growing concern that young children were falling victim to extremism, with teachers coming forward with cases of pupils aged as young as five."

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Gary R. Bunt is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David; Principal Investigator for the ESRC funded Digital British Islam project; Co-Investigator for the CHANSE funded Digital Islam Across Europe project.

Prof. Bunt's book Hashtag Islam: How Cyber Islamic Environments are Transforming Religious Authority was published in 2018. A new book, Islamic Algorithms, is out in May 2024.

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