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Published on: 23 June 2014

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Published on: 2 May 2014

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Published on: 5 December 2013

Written by: Imran Awan All articles by Imran Awan

The UK Government's Extremism Taskforce report came out yesterday, containing recommendations that will simply...
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Published on: 1 September 2012

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