{"id":19333,"date":"2013-07-19T10:26:52","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T14:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?p=19333"},"modified":"2013-07-19T16:56:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T20:56:32","slug":"july-19-2013-britains-muslim-extremists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2013\/07\/19\/july-19-2013-britains-muslim-extremists\/19333\/","title":{"rendered":" Combating Muslim Extremism in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of terrorist bombings by British-born Islamic extremists in 2005, the British government set up an initiative called <em>Prevent<\/em> to engage with the Muslim community and to intervene before a person became radicalized. But many British Muslims feel that the policy amounts to religious profiling, and others have criticized <em>Prevent<\/em> for being misguided and ineffective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of terrorist bombings by British-born Muslims in 2005, the British government set up an initiative called <em>Prevent<\/em> to engage with the Islamic community and to intervene before a person became radicalized. But many British Muslims feel that the policy amounts to religious profiling, and others have criticized <em>Prevent<\/em> for being misguided and ineffective. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2013\/07\/19\/july-19-2013-britains-muslim-extremists\/19333\/\" class=\"more\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":19344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[11124,6461,9801,8603,5257,7183],"class_list":["post-19333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","tag-boston-marathon-bombing","tag-british-muslims","tag-counterterrorism","tag-homegrown-terrorism","tag-islamic-extremism","tag-religious-profiling","topics-international","topics-war-and-peace","faith-muslim"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>July 19, 2013 ~ Combating Muslim Extremism in Britain | July 19, 2013 | Religion &amp; 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