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Terror detective: Check nursery schools for signs of Islamic brainwashing
Benedict Moore-Bridger11 Dec 2009
Children as young as four should be monitored for signs of radicalisation by Islamic extremists, a leaked police memo states.
In an email to community groups, an officer in the West Midlands counter-terrorism unit wrote: "I do hope that you will tell me about persons, of whatever age, you think may have been radicalised or be vulnerable to radicalisation ... Evidence suggests that radicalisation can take place from the age of four."
The email, leaked to the Times, was written by a sergeant trying to allay Muslim community concerns.
However Sir Norman Bettison, who speaks for the Association of Chief Police Officers on Prevent, the anti-terror strategy, said the officer's email was simply a clumsy way to explain the strategy. Chief Constable Sir Norman said: "There is absolutely no example, nationally, of the police engaging with nursery-age kids specifically on this issue.
"That is the age for learning about stranger-danger and the Tufty Club."
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Sounds like an excellent idea to me.
It is high time that the PC brigade were told were to get off and the fact acknowledged that radical/fundamental Islam is NOT compatible with our established way of life.
Anyone found to be engaged in "brainwashing" or radicalising anyone in this serious threat to our culture and identity must be deported to an Islamic state that better suits their religious ideology.
Enough is enough!
- Keith Lonsdale, Doncaster, 11/12/2009 14:51
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Erm, radicalisation is taking place from BIRTH!!! There are certain core groups of people in the area I live who ONLY socialise with each other in certain places where no-one else is made welcome, they turn any empty space into a prayer room and other than flooding onto the streets to go there, are never seen at any other time. These are the women and children being brought up by devout muslims of certain groups - kept at home all day and I wouldn't guarantee those kids are being sent to school. They're not interested in learning English or interacting or socialising or speaking to us western infidels. That is a fact and unless someone addressses this problem we're in for massive problems in the future. If the problems of this extreme religious behaviour have serious and devastating consequences to women and children in the homeland countries, why do we suddenly think it isn't going to happen here? It doesn't make sense. We're facilitating their sectarianism in order to not be seen as racist so we have to face the consequences of that - extremism, sectarian divide, social and religious conflict, turf war, and the horrible and harmful aspects of strict Sharia which is wide open to misinterpretation depending on to whom the worshipper is being instructed in religious duty. We need to address the matter of social integration URGENTLY, plus give support to certain subjugated women.
- Real, London, 11/12/2009 12:20
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Oooh that's going to be contentious! But anyone who has had a child that age on a play-date yacking on amiably about their home life in all the glorious detail that their Mummy would be mortified to know was public will know it kind of makes sense!
- Roz, France, 11/12/2009 10:02
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