So the idea here is that Axel Rudakubana would have voluntarily taken part in Channel and that a programme designed explicitly with anti-terrorism in mind is the best vehicle for addressing delusional paranoid violence? Rather than identifying the nature of multifarious, non-ideological, psychological problems leading to violence and proposing solutions with some empirical bases, we seem to have simply started with a presumption that we've already got this big stick over here so lets use it for a few more things that worry the public and that we don't know what to do about.
When Islamists try to commit mass murder (or even murder of individuals) the public are right to be afraid of them. This legitimate fear cannot be dismissed as an irrational ‘phobia’
As a veteran practitioner, I have printed off Joshua’s helpful summary so that I can put in some serious annotating and thinking time on it.
However, my growing concern for a long time is that, with Prevent, there had developed the glimmerings and more of an Islamophobic leaning AND that, short of any clear labelling of the subject of the day as belonging to or espousing a clear organisation or grouping of concern then due scrutiny would lose its impetus and focus. “Thinking is,” after all,” hard; that is why we judge [ or (my words) prefer to form a judgment without sufficient regard to -quite simply- worrying observations or erratic conduct with no specific ideological driver)” Apologies to as I believe to Carl Jung.
So the idea here is that Axel Rudakubana would have voluntarily taken part in Channel and that a programme designed explicitly with anti-terrorism in mind is the best vehicle for addressing delusional paranoid violence? Rather than identifying the nature of multifarious, non-ideological, psychological problems leading to violence and proposing solutions with some empirical bases, we seem to have simply started with a presumption that we've already got this big stick over here so lets use it for a few more things that worry the public and that we don't know what to do about.
When Islamists try to commit mass murder (or even murder of individuals) the public are right to be afraid of them. This legitimate fear cannot be dismissed as an irrational ‘phobia’
As a veteran practitioner, I have printed off Joshua’s helpful summary so that I can put in some serious annotating and thinking time on it.
However, my growing concern for a long time is that, with Prevent, there had developed the glimmerings and more of an Islamophobic leaning AND that, short of any clear labelling of the subject of the day as belonging to or espousing a clear organisation or grouping of concern then due scrutiny would lose its impetus and focus. “Thinking is,” after all,” hard; that is why we judge [ or (my words) prefer to form a judgment without sufficient regard to -quite simply- worrying observations or erratic conduct with no specific ideological driver)” Apologies to as I believe to Carl Jung.