British govt to spy on Muslim kids as young as five

LONDON - A witch-hunt against the British Muslims has become much more pervasive as the surveillance of potential violent extremists by the UK government is being extended to children even as young as five years old.

According to the latest dTmarche issued by Schools Secretary, Ed Balls, teachers in Britain are being trained in the latest techniques of espionage. Similar guidelines were issued earlier this year to colleges and universities to spy on Muslim students and Islamic associations, albeit revised after an outcry by lecturers and academics. This comes three years after Muslim parents were told by former British Home Secretary John Reid to keep an eye on their children as potential terrorists.

The initiatives come under the government’s misguided prevent strategy for countering violent extremism that have no sense of proportion - the policy criminalizes the whole Muslim community by assuming every Muslim, from five year old onwards, are potential terrorists.