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Steven Emerson,
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October 11, 2016
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British
Home Office Trying to Censor Report Accusing Government of Allowing
"Muslim-Only Zones"
by IPT News • Oct 11, 2016 at 4:13
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According to the Sunday
Times of London, the British Home Office is attempting to censor a
new report that accuses the government of failing to integrate immigrants
and tackle counter extremism, "by allowing some areas to operate as if
they were Muslim-only
zones."
Authored by Dame Louise Casey, the government's integration tsar
appointed by David Cameron, the report's release has been delayed for
months after Home Office officials intervened because of its findings.
In an October 9 article, the Sunday Times states the report
blames the government for its failure to mitigate the rapid pace of immigration
and to implement a coherent strategy to enhance the integration of various
communities. The report also describes how the government allows certain
Muslim-dominated regions to operate independently, where state schools shut
down for Islamic prayers on Friday.
Heavy criticism is also levied at the government for failing to defend
the UK's counter extremism program (Prevent) with the consequence of
allowing Islamists to freely label the program as an attack targeting all
Muslims.
A senior Home Office official, Charlie Edwards, revealed that the report
will be drastically rewritten to minimize the findings, according to
several professional sources speaking to the Sunday Times.
"He (Edwards) told us the Home Office didn't like it and was trying
to find a way to water it down," one source said. A Home Office
spokesperson refused to deny these allegations. Another source told the Sunday
Times that Edwards believes the "report focused too narrowly on
Muslim extremism and integration."
Moreover, the report allegedly counters Islamists' assertions that right
wing extremism is as much of an issue in Britain as radical Islamism. In
the past 15 years, Islamists were responsible for almost all terrorist
plots in the country.
Last year, Dame Casey, the report's author, launched an anti-extremism
strategy that featured investigations into the possibility that Islamists
were infiltrating public institutions and seeking to promote Shari'a law.
She has asserted that some officials just 'mak[e] excuses'...'looking at [their]
shoes and hoping it will go away' in the face of extremist and separatist
pressure in institutions such as schools and universities."
IPT has previously reported on Islamist
infiltrations in various UK institutions, including the state
school system.
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