Although the UK counterterrorism strategy (Contest) and its "Prevent" strand have fundamental flaws that need to be addressed, it seems reasonable that the government should treat both threats with equal importance and in the same way.
Its Prevent strategy has stopped many Muslims from speaking freely, but prevented little else.
Despite this, community organisations argue, the council appointed the ex-Quilliam Foundation director Ghaffar Hussain as its Prevent officer in December last year.
Smith's approach seems in marked contrast to the government's policy to prevent radicalisation, which places increasing pressure on schools, through its Prevent strategy, to be vigilant and report suspicions about students.
The Home Office said its Prevent Strategy, aiming to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorists, had made considerable headway.
Its Prevent product, in use at Oracle, Synopsys and Sun, works as a kind of "grammar checker," looking for nonsensical mathematical functions, racing through thousands of possible permutations in seconds.
