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Apr 28 8 tweets 2 min read
Not sure what is happening with the news editors at Channel 4 News. They have fallen for the securocrats attempts to build a USA style Prison Industrial Complex.
As we have seen with the almost annual enactment of new terrorism laws, exceptionalising anything done by a Muslim is an opportunity for securocrats and loony neoconservative ideologues to tickle fears and prejudices, manufacture consent from the majority, and grab more powers.
The standard concern with all prisons is how to avoid re-offending. But when there is recidivism by a Muslim of course, it's an opportunity to again exceptionalise the debate, find a mediocre careerist to do an "Independent Report" and demand more money and powers.
Using meaningless terms like "extreme" and "radical" for anything other than muslims, would rightly lead to ridicule and demands for a higher standard of intellectual rigour.
But we are living in times where our neighbour France gives 42% of its votes to a fascist because she hates muslims. And here, the UKIP/Nationalist coalition capturing Whitehall largely by indulging the anti muslim / xenophobic sentiments developed through the dehumanising ...
... propaganda pushed since 1990's to make the death of 500K Iraqi children a worthwhile collateral damage (Albright). All this of course has been made possible with collusion from the mainstream media.
However, #C4News has often rightly been held out to be reasonably more objective than others embedded in Westminster. And this kind of poor editorial decision making needs an urgent review.
*relatively more objective

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More from @UK_CAGE

Apr 28
The French government agency @SG_CIPDR, true to form, continues its disinformation propaganda targeting Muslim groups that expose the state sponsored persecution of Muslims in France. ⤵️ Image
As usual, the facts will suffice to demonstrate the unabashed Islamophobia of this body whose only aim is to whitewash the Islamophobia of the French state. Let’s begin.
Firstly CAGE is an independent and community funded NGO which campaigns against state Islamophobia & advocates for justice. We are a leading voice against the infrastructure of authoritarian laws & our work regularly features across the British mainstream and international media.
Read 18 tweets
Apr 28
L'organe gouvernemental @SG_CIPDR, fidèle à lui-même, poursuit sa propagande de désinformation à l'encontre d’organisations musulmanes dénonçant la persécution dont souffrent les musulmans en France.⤵️ Image
Comme à l’accoutumée, les faits suffiront à démontrer l'islamophobie décomplexée de cet organisme dont le seul but est de blanchir l'islamophobie de l'Etat français. Commençons.
Tout d'abord, CAGE est une ONG indépendante, financée par sa communauté, faisant campagne contre l'islamophobie d'État et plaidant pour la justice.
Read 22 tweets
Apr 28
Prevent is a surveillance tool designed to treat the whole population as potentially dangerous for the ruling elites. And as with many aspects of domestic policing in the USA/UK, there is an link with Israeli attempts to create a Closed Society #EndPrevent
#DefundThePolice
This is the police in Birmingham trying to introduce settler colonial values and treat muslim citizens as potential insurgents
theguardian.com/uk/2010/jun/04…
Read 4 tweets
Apr 26
Today the French Supreme Court ruled against the closure of a local mosque near Bordeaux!

Here is a quick recap of this case.
As a result of the state-led Islamophobic persecution currently underway in France, the French administration decided to close down the mosque in March - a few weeks before the start of Ramadan. Why?
The Ministry of the Interior argued the mosque was encouraging acts of Terror because its imam voiced its support for Palestine on social media! or “because of its imam’s peaceful pro-Palestine activism on social media”.
Read 6 tweets
Apr 26
The @Policy_Exchange report got this part right.

CAGE has been consistently campaigning against PREVENT before it became mainstream. The early efforts of CAGE and a few grassroots organisations/activists successfully turned the tide on PREVENT.

🧵of our achievements since 2011
▶️ 2011

CAGE publishes its report “Good Muslim Bad Muslim: A response to the revised PREVENT strategy”, warning against the government’s efforts to impose acceptable religious practice and belief to the Muslim community.

cage.ngo/product/good-m…
▶️ 2013

In a press conference CAGE launched: “The PREVENT strategy: A cradle to grave police-state”.

It is the first report to detail the all encompassing and insidious nature of Prevent policy. In this report, CAGE warns Prevent would become law.

cage.ngo/prevent-strate…
Read 22 tweets
Apr 25
🧵Tomorrow @Policy_Exchange will publish a report with a foreword by David Cameron desperately defending the Islamophobic PREVENT strategy and smearing *only Muslim organisations.

Before we begin please DONATE to our Ramadan appeal. Help us #endPREVENT>> cage.ngo/donate
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.
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