Prevent
Creating “radicals” to strengthen anti-Muslim narratives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12919001 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Asim Qureshi (0000-0002-3793-8372, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 181-191 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Studies on Terrorism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1753-9161 • E-ISSN: 1753-9153 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17539153.2015.1005938 |
| OpenAlex | W2086166070 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 26 |
| References cited | 1 |
“She is of good behaviour and a good Muslim. Against this background, I accept on the evidence before me that this defendant gathered together the contents of the SD card in order to explore and understand the charges which her brothers faced. There is no evidence that she was motivated by their ideology or was preparing to follow them.” The judge in the case of Umm Ahmed clarified to the court that she had not been involved in illegality or had any intention to pose a threat to the UK. Despite this recognition, he sentenced Begum to a 12-month prison term for possessing the magazine Inspire which she had been reading to understand her charged brother’s case. What is unknown is the story of how Umm Ahmed was subjected to a deradicalisation programme, under the auspices of PREVENT and CHANNEL, without any indication of actual involvement in terrorism. The use of deradicalisation narratives in schools, universities and hospitals has led to the criminalisation of large sections of the various Muslim communities in the UK. Based on our experience of cases such as Umm Ahmed, we hope to present a view of how an aggressive anti-Muslim narrative that is based on assumptions subverts the political expression/identity of individuals by turning them into potential threats. The advocacy group CAGE has been working with Umm Ahmed in order to highlight the abuse of the terrorism narrative in her case, but also to understand the actual implementation of PREVENT and CHANNEL beyond their conceptual promotion as a safeguarding tool. By understanding the everyday interactions with PREVENT, a picture can be formed of the way that a false presentation of narratives can lead to a person becoming an “extremist” or “terrorist”, while the truth may lie in a completely alternative place
Aesthetics · Brother · Criminology · Identity (music · Ideology · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Prison · Promotion (chess · Sociology · Terrorism · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
Fanboying the Taliban
Muslims as a suspect community
At least I tried, God damnit” and “Even a drop in the ocean is still more than nothing”
Critical terrorism studies and numbers
Performing PREVENT
A Trojan horse of a different colour
Critical terrorism studies, victimisation, and policy relevance
Canada, the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) and the flexibility of terror identities
Right Wing Extremism as Terrorism and the Law’s Relation to Violence
The Prevent Duty in UK higher education
Don’t Kill the Messenger
Is securitization theory racist? Civilizationism, methodological whiteness, and antiblack thought in the Copenhagen School
Studying ‘Religion’ Critically and the Decolonial Turn
Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment
The Geographies of Prevent
From street soldiers to political soldiers”
Experiencing the war “of” terror
Rethinking terrorism and countering terrorism from a critical perspective.CTS and normativity
The “origins” of Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism
Radicalisation theories, policing practices, and “the future of terrorism?”
Implementing ‘Prevent’ in countering violent extremism in the UK
Conceptualising de-radicalisation and former combatant re-integration in Nigeria
The Politic of Everyday Counter-Terrorism
Above Reproach
Reimagining Prevent Duty in schools
Instilling judgement
| Citations per year | 2.6 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |