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This chapter documents the UK’s response to terrorism, post 9/11, in the domestic “War on Terror” and creeping governmentalisation and hegemony of executive power, the creation of new crimes and the development of security measures and surveillance that disproportionally impacts on Muslim communities, whilst undermining human rights for all. New counter-terror laws eschew the “Rule of Law’s” justice norms of openness, equality and liberty, and are described by one judge and Law Lord as the “stuff of nightmares” and by another as “the real tyranny”. The outlawing of counter-speech is “policed” by the government’s “Prevent” programme, accompanied by the expectation that Muslim women act as conduits of control within Muslim families, accompanied by a generic state over-surveillance of all in the name of securitisation.
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Edwards, S.S.M. (2021). UK Counter-Terror Law, Surveillance and the “Muslim Menace”. In: The Political Appropriation of the Muslim Body. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68896-7_5
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