Quakers criticise Prevent review

‘Quakers and their partners in the Community Counter to Prevent believe the report draws the wrong conclusions and bolsters the most damaging aspects of the programme.’ BYM

by Rebecca Hardy 10th March 2023

Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has criticised the findings of the long-awaited review of Prevent, the government’s counter-terrorism programme. The report calls for its focus to shift more towards Islamist terrorism instead of rightwing terrorism. This was because there had been a significant growth in the latter type of referrals, the Home Office said. Forty-two percent of individuals had been referred for concerns of ‘extreme rightwing radicalisation’ compared to nineteen per cent related to Islamist radicalisation concerns.