Thread by @UK_CAGE

🧵Tomorrow @Policy_Exchange will publish a report with a foreword by David Cameron desperately defending the Islamophobic PREVENT strategy and smearing *only Muslim organisations.

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Amongst the report authors is a @MrPaulStott, who famously got stuck when @Moazzam_Begg confronted him on radio a few years ago.

Have a listen to how he was made to condemn the British government ⤵️

The report in question, ‘Delegitimising Counter-Terrorism’, is an academically poor & desperate attempt to defend the Islamophobic PREVENT strategy.

It fails to contend with the substantive arguments presented by CAGE and others against PREVENT.

It is a ‘rinse and repeat’ of tired Islamophobic tropes, stereotypes and mischaracterisations.

For example it references CAGE no less than 150+ times! (Obsession much?)

David Cameron's foreword doesn't make it any better.

The report stands as a testament to the unified resilience of Muslim organisations, against all odds, in effectively defending their communities from one of the most pernicious and insidious government policies, that is PREVENT.

Funnily enough, despite the Government having a near absolute monopoly on power, access to mainstream media and PR agencies, the report promotes a false reality of ‘unopposed activists’ critiquing PREVENT in order to explain away communities' wholesale rejection of Prevent!

It is very telling that in its attempt to defend PREVENT, Policy Exchange has completely ignored the vast body of critique from beyond the Muslim community. This underlines their open Islamophobic agenda.

Furthermore, it’s indicative of Islamophobia in the UK when Former PM’s give their name to such open hostility to Muslim civil society.

Civil society organisations defending their communities are no stranger to state sponsored defamation.

However, to suggest critiquing prevent equates to enabling terrorism - as Cameron's foreword says - is not only desperate, but also libelous.

The former Prime Minister and Policy Exchange seem wholly unable to respect the long standing democratic tradition of dissent and holding those in power to account.

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Policy Exchange exposes its Islamophobic agenda in a desperate defence of PREVENT

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