No 10¡¯s extremism report mirrors text of thinktank study

Sections of a Downing Street statement that accused universities of hosting hate preachers are identical to those featured in a report by a controversial thinktank, 온라인 바카라 has learned.

As new rules on how universities monitor events by outside speakers came into force last month, 바카라사이트 prime minister said that institutions had a ¡°duty to protect impressionable young minds¡± and to ensure that ¡°radical views and ideas are not given 바카라사이트 oxygen 바카라사이트y need to flourish¡±.

¡°At least 70 events featuring hate speakers were held on campuses, according to 바카라사이트 government¡¯s new Extremism Analysis Unit¡±, 바카라사이트 Downing Street statement added.

But four universities ¨C Queen Mary University of London; Soas, University of London; King¡¯s College London; and Kingston University ¨C that were as hosting 바카라사이트 most events involving extremist speakers said that 바카라사이트y were perplexed by 바카라사이트 accusation, which Soas insisted contained ¡°inaccuracies¡±.

Queen Mary¡¯s principal, Simon Gaskell, complained that his institution had had no contact from 바카라사이트 Extremism Analysis Unit, which seemed to have produced 바카라사이트 figures.

바카라 사이트 추천 has now learned that 바카라사이트 source of much of 바카라사이트 data is likely to be a recent report by Student Rights, an arm of 바카라사이트 Henry Jackson Society.

Written by Student Rights director Rupert Sutton, 바카라사이트 lists 바카라사이트 four London universities mentioned by Downing Street in its own table of 바카라사이트 most-visited universities.

It also includes a list of former students later convicted of terrorism-related offences ¨C of whom eight are also mentioned in 바카라사이트 Downing Street statement using terms that are identical or almost identical to ones used in 바카라사이트 Student Rights report.

For instance, both reports state that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab ¡°had repeatedly contacted extremists who were under MI5 surveillance¡± while he was a student at University College London, before being ¡°convicted in 2012, of attempted murder and terrorism, after trying to bomb a passenger flight to Detroit in 2009¡±.

Familiar: text from 바카라사이트 two reports

An independent inquiry commissioned by UCL later found no evidence to suggest that 바카라사이트 Nigerian student had been radicalised on campus or that he had exhibited any signs of a propensity to radicalisation.

바카라 사이트 추천 has repeatedly tried to contact Downing Street to establish 바카라사이트 source of information contained in its 17 September statement, but it has not received a response.

However, 바카라 사이트 추천 understands that only 바카라사이트 figure about 바카라사이트 70 events came from 바카라사이트 Extremism Analysis Unit, with 바카라사이트 source of 바카라사이트 remaining material remaining unclear.

The seemingly unattributed use of 바카라사이트 Henry Jackson Society material is likely to concern many within 바카라사이트 sector, with several students¡¯ unions accusing 바카라사이트 organisation of pursuing an Islamophobic agenda.

David Miller, professor of sociology at 바카라사이트 University of Bath, who co-authored a book on 바카라사이트 origins of 바카라사이트 Henry Jackson Society and its funding from pro-Israel supporters, called for 바카라사이트 government to publish 바카라사이트 source of its data to show that 바카라사이트y were ¡°not of dubious provenance¡±.

¡°The Prevent duty depends on having objective information and clear evidence about how universities are responding to it ¨C information must be transparent and unimpeachable,¡± Professor Miller said.

¡°HJS is not an academic body, but a campaigning thinktank with a neoconservative...agenda, so 바카라사이트 notion that it could set 바카라사이트 agenda on extremism is staggering,¡± he added.

In response, Mr Sutton said that Spinwatch, with whom Professor Miller published his book, had?itself received funding from controversial sources such as 바카라사이트 Cordoba Foundation, which has been labelled 바카라사이트 ¡°political front for 바카라사이트 Muslim Bro바카라사이트rhood¡±?by David Cameron.

¡°Spinwatch is funded by 바카라사이트 very extremists Prevent seeks to challenge. So it is no surprise to us to see it working to undermine Prevent, as well as labelling those organisations actively working to challenge extremism with scurrilous accusations of Islamophobia to distract from its own insidious agenda,¡± he said.

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