Russia Today: The UK Prime Minister has announced an anti-terror task force to clamp down on the “poisonous narratives” of radical preachers who target recruits in schools, jails and mosques. However, some fear the government’s efforts could actually worsen extremism.
According to the Daily Mail, the unit was launched by Prime Minister David Cameron in the wake of the brutal murder of Lee Rigby, a 25-year-old drummer in the British Army. Rigby was beheaded in southeast London’s Woolwich neighborhood by two men who said the murder was motivated by the UK’s involvement in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
The Tackling Extremism and Radicalization Task Force (TERFOR) will be composed of key Cabinet ministers, including Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, Home Secretary Theresa May and Chancellor George Osborne, as well as Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe and Director General of the Security Service Andrew Parker.
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Islam stands for peace but those follow this teaching or pretend to be followers must behave in a manner to project none other than peace. Any anti peace act in the name of religion must be stopped and those aid ot abet or promote must be brought to book. I fully support PM’s action plan to crack down such elements who cause bad name to Islam.
Expression of violence in the name of religion has its roots in the intolerance and exclusiveness that are preached by a large section of the sunni sect. This is why Pakistan is burning today. Unless the civilized countries of the world take notice of that, the militancy that is now raging in some so called Islamic countries will start gaining ground in the west too. The UK should have done that a long time ago. Any group that preaches intolerance and hate have to be shut down once and for all. A good start will be to ban Takbeer TV.