A student-monitoring software, which highlights if children are at risk of “radicalisation” based on their online activity, has caused outrage after it was discovered that searching for MPACUK’s Raza Nadim could flag children as potential terrorists.

The “radicalisation keywords” have been developed by the software company Impero alongside the Quilliam Foundation – who are part of the Islamophobia Industry.

MPACUK spokesman, Raza Nadim, is listed as an “extremist individual” on the Impero software.

This is a worrying development because if MPACUK – an organisation that is staunchly anti-racist, anti-sectarian, pro-mosque reform and advocates Muslims get involved in the mainstream democratic process – are referred to as “extremists” then what does that mean for others?

Are we called “extremist” simply because we disagree with the Government & Quilliam when it comes to the Prevent and the ‘War on Terror’? Is that the only criteria?

Which other Muslims are on the Quilliam list? How was this list compiled?

Raza Nadim has said the software and the Prevent strategy raised worrying questions about the limits of acceptable political dissent and activism for Muslims opposed to government policy.

“To say that an organisation like MPACUK is extremist, just because the government hears some things that it doesn’t like, is worrying because it means we have gone down a road where ‘1984’ is no longer a warning – it is a manual for this government.”

ACT NOW!

Please take 2 minutes to speak out against this monitoring of children & smearing of Muslim activists as “extremists”.

Contact Impero & Quilliam to ask:

• Which other Muslim activists are labelled as “extremists” on the software?
• Can they explain the rationale & evidence used to compile these keywords?

Impero contact details:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ImperoSoftware

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/imperosoftware

Phone: 01509 611 341

Email: info@imperosoftware.co.uk

Quilliam contact details:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/QuilliamF

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Quilliam

Phone: 0207 182 7280

Email: information@quilliamfoundation.org

It is important to put pressure on Quilliam and Impero because our children should not be viewed through the lens of the ‘War on Terror’.

Clearly MPACUK have the Government & Quilliam worried which is why they are using such under-handed tactics to smear us as “extremists”.

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