UK’s Cameron offers plan to counter attraction of extremism

UK’s Cameron offers plan to counter attraction of extremism

He will also promise action against the “glamourisation” of extremist groups Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

“When it comes to doing what’s right for their businesses they’re happy to engineer technologies that track our likes and our dislikes”, he said, without naming specific firms.

“And the Prime Minister casually refers to requiring the approval of “my parliament” – when a parliament is for the people, and the House of Commons rejected bombing in Syria two years ago”.

Ismael Lea South, director of the Salam Project, a youth engagement and de-radicalisation initiative based in Brent, north London, said young people were seeing “injustice” and some were going to Syria because they wanted to help “their Muslim brothers and sisters”.

“My argument with young people being sucked towards this appalling extremist Isil worldview is “You are heading towards a belief system that believes in throwing people off buildings, raping children, enslaving women”, said the Prime Minister. We respect democracy and the rule of law.

A new counter-extremism strategy will be published later this year, setting out in detail how government will seek to confront and stamp out the “twisted” ideology that justifies terrorism.

During a televised debate yesterday three of Labour’s leadership candidates – Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall – refused to rule out backing Mr Cameron over bombing Syria while the fourth, Jeremy Corbyn, said he would oppose such intervention. We are all British.

“The vast majority of Muslim communities see David Cameron, his government, his policies as being at the forefront of alienating them, demonising them and pushing them into a corner”, he said.

“There are so many strong, positive Muslim voices being drowned out”, Cameron will say, in the speech. “But be in no doubt, we’re committed to working with you (US) to destroy the caliphate in both countries”, BBC quoted Cameron as saying.

“We are not serving our argument or serving our country or serving new arrivals to our country if we don’t enforce these values uniformly”.

“We are talking and discussing at the moment, including with the opposition parties in Britain, what more we can do”.

The prime minister will also use his speech to announce that Louise Casey, the head of the government’s troubled families unit, will chair a review of how to boost opportunity and integration in the most isolated and deprived communities.

A key aim of the strategy will be to combat the rise of such so-called “homegrown extremists”, something which Cameron says can not be done without understanding and tackling the reasons why people are drawn to Islamic State.

UK's Cameron offers plan to counter attraction of extremism

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