In a recent episode of Question Time, the presenter asked the studio audience to raise their hands if they welcomed Michael Gove’s new definition of extremism. Not a single hand went up. The total repudiation by a mainly white, non-Muslim audience highlights the extent to which the British public are seeing anti- extremism policy for what it really is: A cynical and desperate attempt to scapegoat the Muslim community for the government’s complicity in genocide.
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