Coalition of Muslim groups call for boycott of Prevent Review A coalition of Muslim groups have announced they will boycott the Prevent Review in response to the appointment of William Shawcross as reviewer. More than 450 Muslim civil society organisations – including 350 mosques and mosque imams – and over 90 leading figures have signed a statement pledging to boycott the Prevent review.
The statement says: “It is increasingly obvious that Prevent promotes many unacceptable harms – even to those who have engaged with Prevent convinced they are preventing harm. These harms include profiling and targeting Muslim children (even as young as four), making the Muslim community ‘a suspect community’, demonising aspects of Islam, and silencing legitimate speech.”
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