British authorities, and authorities all over the West, treat terrorism as a mental illness rather than a threat because they are so cowed and terrified by the prospect of charges of “Islamophobia,” and so abjectly ignorant of the actual teachings of Islam, that they assume that Islam simply cannot possibly be the motivation for jihad terror activity. They therefore have to look for that motivation elsewhere. It is unlikely that even this official report in Britain is going to change that situation significantly, because if the authorities start to get close to the truth about jihad violence, the “Islamophobia” charges will ring out thick and fast.
“SOFT ON TERROR Anti-terror bosses to be told to stop painting jihadis as mental health victims,” by Jonathan Reilly, The Sun, February 4, 2023:
ANTI-terror bosses will be told to stop treating would-be extremists as if they are mentally ill.
Instead, they should treat them as bad people who follow dangerous ideologies, a major report is to say.
The back to basics call comes in a review of Prevent, the Government-funded anti-terror programme intended to root out potential extremists.
The report by former Charity Commission chairman William Shawcross will also say Islamist jihadists remain a greater threat than far-right extremists….
But it has been criticised for failing to root out those who go on to kill — including Ali Harbi Ali who murdered Tory MP Sir David Amess in October 2021.
Last year, it was swamped with more than 6,400 referrals, including 2,000 boys who were identified as being no threat.
The long-delayed review follows concerns that Prevent officials act like social workers who regard those referred to it as vulnerable or mentally ill.
It will even suggest that some Prevent-funded groups have promoted extremist narratives….
