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Posted on Mon 14 February 2011
National Review: Security, Extremism and Terrorism
In his speech on terrorism at the Munich Security Conference earlier this month, David Cameron brilliantly analyzed the religious and social background to extremism. It seems that, at last, someone is listening to what many of us have been saying for years. He has also identified a number of steps that the government must take to counter the rise of homegrown extremism, which can lead to terrorism: the banning, for example, of teachers of hate from coming to this country, the proscribing of organizations that incite people to violence, and the refusal to “solve” the problem of extremism by funding organizations that actually promote it or, at least, do not discourage it.