Misogyny, ‘Islamism’ and far-right ‘extremism’ amongst tendencies to be analysed, Dwelling Workplace says.
UK Dwelling Secretary Yvette Cooper has ordered a evaluation of the UK’s counterterrorism technique on how you can finest deal with threats by “extremist ideologies” together with misogyny.
Different ideological tendencies to be investigated by the Dwelling Workplace embody “Islamism” and far-right “extremism”.
Cooper mentioned the technique will “map and monitor extremist tendencies” and gauge how you can direct folks away from them.
Round 460 folks have up to now appeared in magistrates’ courts referring to UK-wide riots in late July and early August that had been sparked by disinformation regarding the suspect in a knife assault in Southport, Sky Information reported.
Not less than 72 folks below the age of 18 are believed to have been charged.
A number of had been charged for publishing materials that contributed to the riots, together with publishing written materials to fire up racial hatred.
Whereas the riots had been primarily instigated by far-right provocateurs, many of those figures have additionally doubled up up to now and peddled misogyny.
One social media influencer blamed for spreading false details about incidents that led to the riots is Andrew Tate, who’s repeatedly accused of advancing messaging that’s prejudiced in opposition to ladies.
Misogyny goes past simply phrases, and bodily violence in opposition to ladies continues to be widespread within the UK, with a lady killed by a person each three days, in line with the marketing campaign group Femicide Census.
The rise in misogyny has additionally been linked to “incel” tradition, referring to folks – often males – who name themselves “involuntarily celibate”, and take out their anger on ladies and wider society.
Jake Davison, 22, killed 5 folks in Plymouth in 2021 earlier than fatally capturing himself, in an incident that was linked to incel ideology.
“For too lengthy, governments have failed to handle the rise in extremism, each on-line and on our streets, and we’ve seen the variety of younger folks radicalised on-line develop,” Cooper, who’s a part of the UK’s new Labour authorities, mentioned.
“That’s why I’ve directed the Dwelling Workplace to conduct a fast analytical dash on extremism, to map and monitor extremist tendencies, to grasp the proof about what works to disrupt and divert folks away from extremist views, and to establish any gaps in current coverage which have to be addressed to crack down on these pushing dangerous and hateful beliefs and violence.”
The evaluation is supposed to type a brand new counter-extremism technique for the UK. Cooper has beforehand criticised the earlier Conservative authorities on the difficulty, saying that its technique had lacked sensible plans.