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Infants reported hundreds of times to UK's 'Prevent' anti-terror scheme, including by police (www.newarab.com)
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Infants in the UK have been referred to the government's controversial Prevent counter-terrorism scheme hundreds of times since 2016, in what monitoring groups say has been a means of intimidating and scaring parents into engaging with officials. Through a series of Freedom of Information requests by Hyphen, it was revealed that babies under the age of two were referred to Prevent 86 times between 2016-17 and 2023-24, with over two-thirds (59) of these referrals over so-called “Islamist” concerns. At the same time, children aged two to five were referred to Prevent a further 500 times.

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[–] 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I see the UK is still trying to one up us on racism

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    • [–] 28 points 1 month ago

    You say infants, but those are clearly hamas commandos, or so this IDF pamphlet tells me

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    [–] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    the evil infants:

    ... chances are that they are sleeping.

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    • [+] -16 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    reasons given for a referral include safeguarding concerns like the child’s environment, returning from a conflict zone, or the parent's extreme mindset

    Sounds legit to me, there's concern for the child and not of the child

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  • [–] 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

    “[The police] use Prevent coercively because it basically means that you have a reason to try and intervene in that person's life and to put pressure on them to try and engage with you.”

    “If they put pressure on a family, it's through their children. That's the Achilles' heel of every parent is their baby. Fear of losing their child and the fear of Prevent turning up.”

    They're abusing the law to intimidate Muslim families. There's no concern at all about or on behalf of the child, any more than the people reporting random Latinos to ICE have.

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    [–] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Damn terrorist babies!

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    I don't know if you are joking but I saw a documentary about babies and it turns out they are extremely intelligent and dangerous before learning to speak human language at 2-3 years old.

    According to Dr. Kinder's research on toddlers/babies, they are born possessing vast, universal knowledge and speak a secret yet impossible-to-translate pre-language called Babytalk. However, at age 2–3, the knowledge and language are lost as the babies "cross over" by learning how to speak human languages. All babies raised in Dr. Kinder's underground research facility were adopted from the orphanages Babyco supports (as they serve to filter out which babies should or shouldn't be raised under the Kinder Method) and transformed into small geniuses through use of the Kinder Method, and then used in experiments to decipher this secret yet impossible-to-translate language used by the eight baby geniuses.

    I don't think a lot of naive lefty liberals realize this danger, they are far too trusting of new people.

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