Cameron also pointedly said he hoped he may be able to help the intelligence services track mobile phone exchanges through non-legislative means, in light of the Liberal Democrats' refusal to sanction a communications data bill.
Source/Credit: The Guardian | UK
By Patrick Wintour | June 3, 2013
Cabinet task force set up after killing of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich makes number of proposals
David Cameron has pledged fresh action "to drain the swamp" that is creating British Islamic extremism as he gave his first report on his taskforce set up after the killing of Drummer Lee Rigby outside Woolwich barracks.
The cabinet-level taskforce met for the first time on Tuesday and resolved to counter not just violent extremist views, but also extremism in all its forms.
No 10 said the taskforce will focus on:
- Whether rules for charities are too lax and allow extremists to prosper.
- Fresh action to disrupt groups that incite hatred or violence, including extremists on university campuses and in prisons.
- More support for madrasas to prevent radicalisation, including help for mosques that want to expel extremists and recruit imams who understand Britain.
- Discussions with internet service providers on a new code of conduct requiring companies to be more proactive in taking down extremist websites and messages.
"It is not simply enough to target and go after violent extremists after they've become violent. We have to drain the swamp in which they inhabit. And that means looking at the process of radicalisation on our campuses, it means looking at Islamic centres that have been taken over by extremists and gone wrong, it means looking at those mosques, which are struggling to throw out the extremists and to help them in the work they are doing.
"It means going through all of these elements of the conveyor belt to radicalisation and making sure we deal with them."
Since 2011, more hate preachers have been excluded from the UK than ever, he said, while 5,700 items of terrorism-related material had been taken down from the internet. "But it is clear that we need to do more," he added. "When young men born and bred in this country are radicalised and turned into killers, we have to ask some tough questions about what is happening in our country."
Cameron also pointedly said he hoped he may be able to help the intelligence services track mobile phone exchanges through non-legislative means, in light of the Liberal Democrats' refusal to sanction a communications data bill.
Cameron said: "In 95% of serious crimes the police are using not the content of a phone call but the data about the phone call – when it was made, who it was made between. That is vitally important and we have got to have a mature and grown-up debate in this house about what we do as telephony moves on the internet.
"What this has got to be is a set of actions in our universities, in our schools, in our colleges, on the internet, and in our prisons where, for heaven's sake, we're meant to be responsible for these people and yet they are being radicalised under our very noses – a set of actions to deal with these problems."
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