According to a Home Office outline of the strategy, this program was needed as previous counter-terrorism programmes had “not clearly recognised the way in which a few terrorist ideologies draw on and make use of extremist ideas which are espoused and circulated by apparently non-violent organisations, very often operating within the law”.
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The Daily Telegraph adds that Cameron will announce the launch of “extremist disruption orders”.
The Government also said it will toughen the rules around gaining British citizenship.
De-radicalization programs will be mandatory for those imprisoned for terrorism related offenses and for people returning from Syria and Iraq under the expanded measures.
It also hands parents the power to apply for children aged 16 and 17 to have their passports removed if they believe them to be at risk of “travelling overseas under the influence of extremists”. We seemed to lack the strength and resolve to stand up for what is right, even when the damage being done by extremists was all too clear.
To ensure that teenagers do not fall prey to militant radicalisation, Cameron will say that “anyone with a conviction for terrorist offences or extremist activity will be automatically banned from working with children and vulnerable people”, Reuters reported.
Mr Cameron, who delivered a blistering attack on “passive tolerance” of extremism in his Conservative Party conference, said: “We need to systematically confront and challenge extremism and the ideologies that underpin it, exposing the lies and the destructive consequences it leaves in its wake”.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has now made it possible for parents to ask for their children’s passports to be cancelled if they fear they could go overseas to join terror groups, the media reported on Monday.
Mrs May told BBC One’s Breakfast: “We do face an unprecedented threat fromextremism”.
“As a government, I know we must own this problem”. “The scale of the task is huge and that is why we need everyone to play their part”.
He said he saw “McCarthyist undertones” in the proposal for blacklists against people deemed to be extremist.
“Today’s “one nation” counter-extremism strategy continues down a flawed path, focusing on Muslims in particular, and are based on fuzzy conceptions of British values”.
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“Whether it is in mosques, education or charities, the strategy will reinforce perceptions that all aspects of Muslim life must undergo a “compliance” test to prove our loyalty to this country,” said Shuja Shafi, the MCB’s Secretary General.
