Britain: Bid to Crack Down on Islamic Extremism Faces Resistance
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- "Islamist propaganda is so potent that it is influencing children as young as five... If I feel the need to be extra vigilant [with my own children], then I think you need to feel the need to be extra vigilant." — Mak Chishty, Britain's most senior Muslim police officer.
- "It is very noticeable that the main Islamist groups are not really up in arms about this. They want it, because it will feed the narrative of grievance and victimhood they love. They will be able to use it to say, look, we told you so." — Haras Rafiq, Director of the Quilliam Foundation.
- "You can't protect democracy by undermining democracy... It is a battle of ideas and we have to defeat these ideas by argument, not by banning even having the debate. What we need, far more than any new law, is a counter-argument and a policy which can inspire [Muslim] society to defeat extremist ideas." — Rashad Ali, counter-extremism specialist at the Home Office's de-radicalization program.
- "As the party of one nation, we will govern as one nation, and bring our country together. That means actively promoting certain values... And it means confronting head-on the poisonous Islamist extremist ideology. Whether they are violent in their means or not, we must make it impossible for the extremists to succeed." — British Prime Minister David Cameron.
