A Crackdown On Extremists

[naomi24]

//A crackdown on hate preachers will be announced in the Queen’s Speech this week as the government steps up its efforts to tackle the “poisonous narrative” of Islamist extremism. Sweeping new laws will ban hate speakers from working with children and other vulnerable groups, in the same way that paedophiles are vetted to stop them being given jobs in schools. The plan – to be included in a new Counter-extremism Bill - is designed to stop radicals infiltrating schools, colleges, charities and care homes, where they could brainwash vulnerable young people or disabled adults into violence.//

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/14/queens-speech-cameron-promises-crackdown-on-extremists/

A step in the right direction – or not far enough?

[Zacs-Master]

Your question is not logical. I believe it's both.

[naomi24]

Okay. I'll rephrase it. "Is this a step in the right direction and should it have been taken further?"

[Zacs-Master]

Much better. And again 'yes'.

[cassa333]

It depends on how it is worded and enforced.

It is all very well for this sort of law but if recent events are anything to go by it will be used by the PC brigade to shut up Christians when they speak out about anything that does not conform to the PC world we now live in.

Anyway it is too late to stop the infiltration of schools and colleges and universities etc as they are already there.

The police will be too frightened to use it except in the most extreme of cases and possibly when it is too late and they do a bit of navel gazing and excuse making.

[viv41]

I think you're probably right cassa, but let's hope you're not.

[Old_Geezer]

Surely the police don't vet job applicants for records of paedophilia, that would be the employers' responsibility: so why would hate preachers be different. If the records exist it'd be the school's etc. responsibility to check both new applicants and existing employees, surely.

[Jackdaw33]

I am very uneasy about the use of the word 'hate'. It is so easy to tarnish people with it. Anyone who speaks out against, say, Islam, no matter how reasoned their arguments, could find himself being charged with a 'hate crime'. It will not be long, if certain people have their way, that speaking out against the EU will become a 'hate crime'.