Distrust of Prevent scheme among reasons cited for lack of uptake of government scheme Widespread distrust of the Home Office’s counter-extremism strategy by British Muslims has been cited as one of the obstacles to mosques using a government scheme to protect places of worship from hate crime, after figures showed just 22 received funding last year. Source: Just 22 mosques given funding for hate crime security last year

Figures confirm that the government’s McCarthyistic counter-terrorism strategy is curtailing progressive dissent, says law lecturer Nadine El-Enany Many staff and students at universities across Britain will have welcomed Liberty’s condemnation of the chilling effect the government’s counter-terrorism strategy is having on free speech on campuses. Recently published figures from the Office for Students showed that more than 2,000 events across Britain’s 300 or so higher education institutions have been affected by Prevent.   Source: Prevent is stopping free speech on campus and demonising Muslims | Nadine El-Enany