Wednesday 10 March 2010

The Power of Nightmares (part two)

Cornwall's Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education might not have appreciated the potential for controversy when it agreed to convene a special conference to train teachers how to spot potential suicide bombers in the playground. Two obvious questions: if there is a serious terrorist threat to Cornwall, is the SACRE really the appropriate organisation to lead the counter-terrorism fight? And will having a demonstrably (overwhelmingly) white, Christian organisation in the driving seat really help reassure Cornwall's tiny Islamic community that this is not just a bit of Muslim-baiting? Methinks this story could run a while....

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