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Announcing his five-year counter-extremism strategy at a school in Birmingham, Primer Minister David Cameron revealed parents fearing that their children might travel to Syria or Iraq to join Islamic State (Isis) will now be able to apply for their child’s passport to be cancelled. He explained that the parents will have the right to cancel the passports of their children under 16 to prevent them from travelling to war zones.
In his speech, Cameron highlighted the extent to which Islam had come to be used as a cover for violent extremism, arguing that the state had a right to side with moderate Muslims in what he described as a battle of ideas. He stressed that there is a desperate need for difficult cultural conversations over issues such as “honour”-based violence and female genital mutilation. Addressing the audience at the school, Cameron stated that Britain was a successful, diverse society but had to “confront a tragic truth that there are people born and raised in this country … who don’t really identify with Britain – and feel little or no attachment to other people here.”
Cameron admitted that “indeed, there is a danger in some of our communities that you can go your whole life and have little to do with other religions and communities,” adding that “so when groups like Isil [Isis] seek to rally our young people to their poisonous cause, it can offer them a sense of belonging that they can lack here at home. Islamic extremism is a radical, exciting even, glamorous ideology that gains traction due to the failures of integration.”
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