Extreme misogyny to be treated as terrorism
telegraph.co.uk
telegraph.co.uk
“Teachers, healthcare professionals and local authority staff are under a legal duty to make a referral to the Prevent scheme if they believe someone is susceptible to becoming radicalised. Anyone who is referred to Prevent is then assessed by their local authority and the police to see if they need to be deradicalised.”
Headline (statement): Extreme misogyny to be treated as terrorism
Reality: unlikely.
Fact:
Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, has ordered a review of Britain’s counter-extremism strategy to urgently address gaps in the Government’s stance,
People that go on killing sprees to scare the community, be they incels, religious fanatics, et el will likely be charged under terrorism laws for any acts of terror they commit.
Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children!!
> Teachers, healthcare professionals and local authority staff are under a legal duty to make a referral to the Prevent scheme if they believe someone is susceptible to becoming radicalised. Anyone who is referred to Prevent is then assessed by their local authority and the police to see if they need to be deradicalised.
Riiight... No chance of that ever becoming Kafkaesque.
> There are several extremism categories ranked by the Home Office as an area of “concern”, including Islamist, extreme Right-wing, animal rights, environmental and Northern Ireland related extremism.
> There is also a category for “incel” ...
(The 2023 guide at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prevent-duty-guid... says of incels, "It is possible that violent adherents to movements and subcultures, such as Involuntary Celibacy (Incels), could meet the threshold of terrorist intent or action, should the threat or use of serious violence be used to influence the government or intimidate the public.")
This strongly suggests there are additional categories, but I cannot find that Home Office list.
As for who came up with them, the article says the Home Office.