The Breitbart website has an interesting article on the Home Office’s new guidance for schools and colleges on countering jihadist radicalisation. The guidance is, as Brietbart said, an object lesson on stating the bloody obvious.
Brietbart said:
“Among the helpful advice is a list of key phrases used by fans of the Islamic State (ISIS) that teaching staff should look out for among pupils, including ‘Caliphate’ and ‘Jihad’, phrases staff could find in any daily newspaper. For teachers who are unfamiliar with the internet, yet somehow expected to detect extremism among youth who can use it almost exclusively to disseminate information and share ideas, the briefing note also contains a helpful guide to social media.
Among other revelations are the crucial facts that “ISIL supporters use Facebook to share content”, “Twitter is another popular social media platform”, and that “YouTube is also used to host videos”.
It looks to me as if this document was put out not in order achieve something but in order to make it look as if the Home Office is actually doing something, when in reality they are probably doing bugger all. Basic stuff about social media and how jihadists use it is included and it assumes that teachers know nothing at all about the internet and social media. As it is highly unlikely that there are any non-computer literate teachers from the 1950’s left in our schools, it does make one wonder just what the Home Office are trying to achieve?
It appears that the Home Office feels that it needs to say something, anything, about the problems of jihadism in the UK but cannot bring itself to take the sort of robust, effective, targeted action that needs to be undertaken to deal with this problem. It is vague, pointless and doesn’t tackle the problem of face to face radicalisation that takes place in Muslim families, in mosques and in college and school Islamic societies. It is the sort of advice give by a spineless government department that fears even to offend this country’s enemies.
The former head teacher Chris McGovern who was quoted in the Brietbart report hits at least one of the nails on he head when he said that a style of teaching that is in thrall to the idea of cultural relativism, is part of the problem, not what people read on the internet.
This guidance is indeed ‘useless window dressing’ as described by Mr McGovern, and is in my opinion merely sound and fury signifying nothing. We, or rather the Home Office is reaping the poisonous crop sown by the former Labour administration who allowed supporters of Islam, Islamism and jihad to infiltrate the great departments of state such as the Home Office.
We, the non-Muslim majority in the UK deserve much better than this useless waste of paper and ink, which will do nothing, change nothing and do precisely bugger all to prevent Jihad. At a time when the state should be closing mosques that are questionable, rooting out the Islamic fifth columnists and deporting and imprisoning those Muslims who hold views that are completely incompatible with free democratic societies, all we get is this worthless piece of cack.
The Home Office should be ashamed of their uselessness, which has been amply displayed by their distribution of this document. The Home Office may think they can take us for fools by putting out this scandalously idiotic piece of paper, but a growing number of people are seeing it for the smokescreen which it is.
Link
Original article from Brietbart
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/07/08/useless-window-dressing-government-guide-to-spotting-student-radicals-slammed/
