UK Education heads offered help on radicalisation
Senior education officials and British head teachers will be offered advice on how to prevent and protect young British students becoming radicalised.
The help and advice has been offered to them from the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) and seminars are to take place across major English cities. Kamal Hanif, who specialises in Islam and citizenship, will conduct the seminars.
There have been several high profile cases of young British people fleeing to Iraq and Syria to team up with ISIL. The most prominent and infamous British citizen to join the Takfiri terrorist group is Mohammed Emwazi, the man seen in many execution videos clutching a knife and standing next to a hostage.
There have been other high profile cases, such as the three London schoolgirls who travelled to Syria from Gatwick airport via Turkey. This case raised the alarm of radicalisation among young people in Britain and also raised security questions as to how three young London schoolgirls were able to travel unaccompanied to Syria. The girls are believed to be in the Syrian city of Raqqa, a city dominated by the ISIL.
Hanif is hoping his seminars will educate head teachers on the sensitive issue of radicalisation. He is wary that teachers and parents are often unaware that their children are being exposed to certain kinds of information. He says that this “is about having a greater understanding around the issues of radicalisation and extremism".
"Young people spend a lot of their time on the web and social media and they can easily get drawn into extremist ideas without access to a counter-narrative…they will help to equip heads with the counter-narratives to some of the false claims put out by extremists."
Hanif and a number of other specialists will hope that their seminars can assist education leaders on what they are supposed to do on this sensitive subject.
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