Maaha Elahi

Muslims have felt targeted by the Prevent policy since its inception. Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) found that Prevent is generally ‘seen through the prism of Islamic extremism leading to terrorism’. There was much outcry, then, following the appointment of Sir William Shawcross, a former director of neoconservative thinktank the Henry Jackson Society, as Independent Reviewer of Prevent.