Government deradicalisation plan will brand Muslims with beards as terrorists, say academics

‘The Government’s flagship counter-radicalisation strategy leads Muslims who grow beards to be labelled as terrorists and could be used to clamp down on anti-austerity and environmental campaigners, hundreds of academics have claimed in an open letter to The Independent.

Wide-ranging powers brought in this month under the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act force teachers, social workers, prison officers and NHS managers to report signs of radicalisation.

Those suspected of extremism will be sent on deradicalisation programmes, while the whole system is to be policed by Government inspectors.’

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