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.
https://twitter.com/darshnasoni/status/1519376857451450369
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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