Anti-terror code 'would alienate most Muslims'
Draft strategy brands thousands as extremists

by Vikram Dodd
Guardian
February 17, 2009

http://www.islamist-watch.org/1338/anti-terror-code-would-alienate-most-muslims

Excerpt:

The government is considering plans that would lead to thousands more British Muslims being branded as extremists, the Guardian has learned. The proposals are in a counterterrorism strategy which ministers and security officials are drawing up that is due to be unveiled next month.

Some say the plans would see views held by most Muslims in Britain being classed by the government as extreme.

According to a draft of the strategy, Contest 2 as it is known in Whitehall, people would be considered as extremists if:

• They advocate a caliphate, a pan-Islamic state encompassing many countries.

• They promote Sharia law.

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