[Straits Times] MUSLIM groups which refuse to tackle militancy will have their funding cut in an overhaul of counter-terrorism policy, the government is due to announce on Tuesday.
More money will be spent on identifying threats in prisons, universities and the health service under a revision of the 63 million pound (S$127.1 million) Prevent programme.
The review of the scheme, launched by the Labour government in 2007 to stop the growth of home-grown terrorism, was ordered after it was deemed to have failed to produce any discernible security benefits.
Home Secretary Theresa May will announce the policy changes to parliament later.
She has already said that up to 20 organisations funded under the programme over the last three years could have their funding withdrawn.
The government wants to stop state funding from reaching'organisations that hold orc views or support terrorist-related activity of any kind', according to extracts of the review seen by the Times newspaper.
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The Wall Street Journal has some thoughts on the subject.
Key bit:
The core of the Cameron/Clegg disagreement is this: Are people who are radicals, bigots, racists, homophobes, misogynists and more, but not currently actively violent, the sort of people you should support, or shun? In Munich, Mr. Cameron expressed his belief that paying radical nonviolent Islamists to draw people away from violent Islamists would be like paying British National Party fascists to draw people away from the violent neo-Nazis of Combat 18.
But inside the Cabinet and the civil service, the prime minister encountered a very different view: that currently nonviolent extremists should be supported as a bulwark against al Qaeda. Despite its manifest failures and the societal divisions it has caused to date, this view could yet prevail. As one senior official put it in private, "The Munich speech is [Mr.] Cameron's personal view, not policy." Mr. Cameron may be in office, but we have yet to see if he is in charge.
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