Thread by @miqdaad

Disgusting

Shawcross, Gove & The Times appear to want to publish names of who they consider to be "extreme" Muslims/Muslim groups as part of their attempt to refocus Prevent on Muslims & not the far right

This is after a far-right terror attack against a migrant centre

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ICYMI Shawcross said "..Islam is one of the greatest, most terrifying problems of our future"

He targeted Muslim charities. He defended torture. He seems to even have wanted Foreign Office officials to mock Islam

Much more - see 👇🏽

https://twitter.com/miqdaad/status/1325030095359275008?t=oDVslUOVgaE2zWcYGNUOGg&s=19

ICYMI Baroness Warsi said she was genuinely "fearful of the idea of Michael Gove becoming prime minister" due to "his views on British Muslims"

Gove promoted Douglas Murray, pushed the Trojan Horse story & was a fan of people like Maajid Nawaz

For more👇🏽

https://twitter.com/miqdaad/status/1560918876308869120?t=kyNBRh3X0HjNIe_sMo1CpA&s=19

ICYMI this idea of creating a list of bad Muslims has been tried before.

By Gove's favourite Muslim: Maajid Nawaz's Quilliam, which sent lists of peaceful Muslim groups to the counter-terror chief trying to claim they were linked to terrorism!

theguardian.com/uk/2010/aug/04…

It seems Shawcross & Gove want to go further than Quilliam & actually *publish* these names of "extreme" Muslims

It's astonishing anyone can look at the evidence & think these two should be in charge of anything related to British Muslims

And so few care. It's appalling

It's actually worse than that

The idea of a report being published by our government in naming Muslim organisations (in what could be considered equivalent to a McCarthyite list) when the Islamophobic far-right are on the rise & likely looking for Muslim targets, is beyond scary

For years we’ve seen this attempt to create a black list of undesirables deemed so by *some influential people* who themselves have a divisive record.

Remember: these groups have no criminal record, have had no chance to defend themselves & have close to no recourse

For years, we’ve witnessed the Times, the Policy Exchange, Gove and Shawcross coordinate their predetermined outcome of this Prevent review through PX reports and coverage in The Times

If the Times believes Prevent needs to elicit support of Muslim leaders, then it needs to acknowledge the review should have an evidence based approach & be by people who actually might be impartial rather than Gove & Shawcross

thetimes.co.uk/article/the-ti…

This approach with Gove & Shawcross at the helm (given their ideologies & views about British Muslims) and a conclusion to focus on British Muslims despite the rise of the far right, is going to struggle to get any buy-in

And it's scary that anyone thinks it might...

Few seem willing to take the Islamophobic far-right threat seriously & want to focus on the "other"

Maybe it is because that is the source of some of their support? Maybe it is because that is actually where some of them themselves reside?

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

With the evidence so clear (about this report's unfair approach, the ridiculousness of Gove & Shawcross, the unjustifiable conclusion), will allies speak up?

Or will it not matter because it's only British Muslims who will be victims of this report?

Time will tell.