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Is the British government looking to outlaw Islam? – Dr Layla Aitlhadj on the Shawcross Review

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Is There a Legislative Follow-Up?

There is a discussion about increasing the surveillance aspects of prevent and also to introduce something called disruption orders. It sounds very similar to the French system where many charities and groups have been shut down. I think we saw this and started mentioning it a while ago when we saw elements of pursue, which is the other arm of the counterterrorism strategy,. And this is exactly what this does here. Now the thresholds for people who are being pursued by MI5 is going to be higher than those who have been referred via prevent. So it's a kind of backdoor way of introducing the powers.

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