Louise Casey, the former government integration tsar, told an audience of police leaders that oppression of women in Muslim communities was a sign of extremism that led to Islamist terrorism. But furthermore that was feeding the rise of the extreme right and an increase in the terrorist threat neo-Nazis posed. Casey told police leaders: “We are helping the extreme right wing if we do not take these issues on. “‘I don’t think girls should be growing up in this country where they don’t leave their houses over the weekend,” she said. Casey’s prescription allows a rare insight into thinking about social factors some believe are driving the extremism which in turn lead to terrorist violence.

Source: The Guardian November 02, 2017 20:02 UTC