(UK) University staff asked to inform on 'vulnerable' Muslim students

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Source: The Guardian

University staff including lecturers, chaplains and porters are being asked to inform the police about Muslim students who are depressed or isolated under new guidance for countering Islamist radicalism.

The move has resulted in deep discomfort among university lecturers and student union officials who wish to combat terrorism but say the new strategy is an infringement of students' civil liberties.

Officials implementing the government's revamped Prevent strategy are training frontline university employees in how to spot students vulnerable to extremism. Documents handed to staff claim that students who seem depressed or who are estranged from their families, who bear political grievances, or who use extremist websites or have poor access to mainstream religious instruction could be at risk of radicalisation.

The National Union of Students has told its officers that they do not have to provide police with details about students unless they are presented with a warrant.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/aug/29/university-inform-vulnerable-muslim-students

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Way to perpetuate the stereotype that Muslims can't be people like the rest of us and that a depressed Muslim = potential terrorist! How come it's so easy to pick on Muslims like that, but it feels so less controversial to consider a depressed Christian student appropriate for therapy?

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Maybe Muslim students who are depressed or isolated are that way

because they're constantly being equated with terrorists and socially shunned as a result.

[dipsydoodle]

2. You've posted an editorial - not LBN.

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[Lunabelle]

3. This should go for those crazy christians.

Actually it should be for all students.