I just read this article...
"A recent study carried out by the Policy Exchange think tank found that nearly £90 million of taxpayers' money was being spent on reactionary Muslim groups in the hope that by building them up they may somehow divert radicals from a violent path. The report found that the Government was "underwriting the very Islamist ideology which spawns an illiberal, intolerant and anti-Western world view"."
It added: "Political and theological extremists, acting with the authority conferred by official recognition, are indoctrinating young people with an ideology of hostility to western valuese_SLps A new generation is being radicalised, sometimes with the very funds that are supposed to be countering radicalisation."
This is very worrying. There is not much point in "training 60,000 people", if that is what has happened, to spot a suicide bomber and evacuate people from a public area if we can't stop the radicalisation to begin with. There is also confusion in government about the aim of this approach. It should not simply be about trying to contain the problem but about unashamedly proselytising British values and insisting upon loyalty to them. We should not be funding Muslim organisations simply because they might stand up and denounce terrorism, though that is important. Those of us financing these programmes would also like the recipients to condemn the whole corpus of anti-Western doctrine upon which the radicals thrive.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/colu … mists.html
Is this a smart idea and a good use of UK funds...?
should any religion be funded?
"A recent study carried out by the Policy Exchange think tank found that nearly £90 million of taxpayers' money was being spent on reactionary Muslim groups in the hope that by building them up they may somehow divert radicals from a violent path. The report found that the Government was "underwriting the very Islamist ideology which spawns an illiberal, intolerant and anti-Western world view"."
It added: "Political and theological extremists, acting with the authority conferred by official recognition, are indoctrinating young people with an ideology of hostility to western valuese_SLps A new generation is being radicalised, sometimes with the very funds that are supposed to be countering radicalisation."
This is very worrying. There is not much point in "training 60,000 people", if that is what has happened, to spot a suicide bomber and evacuate people from a public area if we can't stop the radicalisation to begin with. There is also confusion in government about the aim of this approach. It should not simply be about trying to contain the problem but about unashamedly proselytising British values and insisting upon loyalty to them. We should not be funding Muslim organisations simply because they might stand up and denounce terrorism, though that is important. Those of us financing these programmes would also like the recipients to condemn the whole corpus of anti-Western doctrine upon which the radicals thrive.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/colu … mists.html
Is this a smart idea and a good use of UK funds...?
should any religion be funded?
Last edited by [TUF]Catbox (2009-03-23 20:24:56)
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