Counter-terrorism and the repression of Islamic activism: Hizb ut-Tahrir in Britain and Denmark

McNeil-Willson, Richard

doi:10.1080/14782804.2021.1989387

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“…Whilst approaches to tackling VRWE content have a relatively long history, the content frames and linkages have continued to shift over time, significantly changing policy and language both in their scope and their focus—partly as a result of slippage around the problematic language of violent extremism (McNeil‐Willson, 2023; Sedgwick, 2010). For instance, several scholars have suggested that current trends within the language of violent extremism and counter‐extremism policy (Onursal & Kirkpatrick, 2021) represent a crisis of counterterrorism (Jackson, 2015), by which an expanding ‘securitising lens’ highlights the failure of policy to adequately prevent or account for irregular violence (McNeil‐Willson, 2019). This has led to an increasingly unwieldy set of language and concepts within the counterterror paradigm, to include events far beyond what was traditionally termed as terrorism—such as misinformation linked to the COVID‐19 pandemic, polarisation, so‐called antigovernmental or antisystem extremism, along with several kinds of activism.…”

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“…Despite the challenges, securitisation theory is particularly relevant in this case because of its focus on language. In examining how online content becomes securitised, we not only focus specifically on language as the means by which security is created, we also see language as potentially being a receptor of, or negatively impacted by, this security—language and content itself becoming a new ‘threat’ from a growing securitised lens (McNeil‐Willson, 2019). The paper also updates existing scholarship on European securitisation processes, by moving beyond language of securitisation being used to target migrant or ‘other’ communities, towards language from White majorities, linked to VRWE.…”

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Watering down the wine: European Union regulation of violent right‐wing extremism content and the securitisation of new online spaces

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McNeil‐Willson

2023

Policy & Internet

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The regulation of violent right‐wing extremist online content in the European Union is facing a conundrum. On the one hand, pressure to respond to concern over violent right‐wing extremism (or VRWE, a term used by the European Union to refer to ‘far right’) has led to a push to develop a coherent European‐wide response. On the one hand, this has led to a watering down or ‘loosening’ of the concept and implementation, to come to policy agreements between Member States. On the other hand, we have also seen a broadening and expansion of key concepts around VRWE to include more online practices. We argue that this combination of ‘loosening’ the definition of far right, whilst simultaneously ‘broadening’ what constitutes far‐right content, risks the securitisation of vast online practices ‐ muddying the means for developing coherent and effective responses to VRWE in online spheres. This paper aims to explore the framing and securitisation of violent right‐wing extremist content, by tracking the discursive construction of European content moderation policy tools over time.

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Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

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Watering down the wine: European Union regulation of violent right‐wing extremism content and the securitisation of new online spaces

Flonk,

McNeil‐Willson

2023

Policy & Internet

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“…Channel has developed within, and as part of, the broader Prevent programme in the UK, which has become the main focus of British counterterrorism practice (Kaleem, 2021;McNeil-Willson, 2019). It has been implemented across UK society, with legal obligations to locate extremism enshrined within the UK public sector (Busher, Choudhury, Thomas, & Harris, 2017).…”

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Applicability of Channel Vulnerability Assessment Framework and Programme for Kosovo

McNeil-Willson

2024

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This paper examines the applicability of the Channel Vulnerability Assessment Framework and the Channel procedures in the context of Kosovo. It does this by examining the way in which the current Channel procedures are constructed with regard to risk assessment, the process of referrals, and the methods of rehabilitation or deradicalisation. The paper will also look at some of the problems of criticisms of the Channel approach, and the problematic implications that such an approach may have, as well as considering whether and how there might be an opportunity to remedy or resolve these. Ultimately, the paper finds that there are both risks and possibilities with deploying a Channel framework in a Kosovan context, although significant care must be taken, as the British context presents significant differences to the Kosovan, whilst it is also important to avoid replicating the mistakes that have been made by the UK Government during Prevent and Channel implementation.

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“…З другого боку, певний резонанс викликала тема поширення ХТ в декількох західних країнах, зокрема в Данії та Німеччині, де члени організації відзначилися контраверсійними заявами та публічними акціями [Möller et al 2021;Simonsen 2014]. Насамперед, однак, це стосується Великобританії, яка стала глобальним центром медіаактивності організації [Genovese 2012;Hamid 2007;Maher 2016;McNeil-Willson 2021;Orofino 2015;Orofino 2021a;Salama 2021;Stuart and Ahmed 2010;Sinclair 2010;Sinclair 2018;Wali 2017]. Особливо ж треба виокремити повноцінні монографічні дослідження процесів ректрутування нових членів, а також причин привабливості ХТ для мусульман Великобританії та Австралії, запропоновані Валі [Wali 2016] та Орофіно [Orofino 2020].…”

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Hizb ut-Tahrir between Radicalism and Nonviolence: A Review of Current Literature

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2022

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The article offers a general overview of several significant contributions to the study of Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami (HT), or the Islamic Party of Liberation, in the past three decades. As one of the oldest but lesser-known Islamist organizations that currently operates in dozens of countries around the globe, HT has often been characterized by observers as having a highly distinct identity which combines a utopian quasi-milleniarist ideology, a unique non-violent strategy and at the same time an extremely radical rhetoric akin to that of the most notorious jihadist groups, like al-Qaida or ISIS. This "explosive" combination has rendered HT a permanent subject of close scrutiny in numerous academic and analytical publications which attempted to disentangle what is "real" in the agenda of the movement from what is strategically used merely as a decoy in specific socio-political contexts. However, as it becomes evident from the available literature, the inherent ambivalence of HT as an Islamist group has defied definite answers to the most pressing questions regarding its true nature and attitudes vis-а-vis violence producing a range of policy responses to its activities. Reviewing the current state of research in this area, the article demonstrates that while in the past twenty years the majority of analysts and scholars have generally agreed that HT cannot be regarded as a terrorist organization per se, nonetheless they, paradoxically, arrived at vastly different assessments of it as a security threat and suggested markedly different strategies for curtailing the spreading of its influence among Muslims in Europe and Central Asia.

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Counter-terrorism and the repression of Islamic activism: Hizb ut-Tahrir in Britain and Denmark

Cited by 6 publications

References 19 publications

Watering down the wine: European Union regulation of violent right‐wing extremism content and the securitisation of new online spaces

Watering down the wine: European Union regulation of violent right‐wing extremism content and the securitisation of new online spaces

Applicability of Channel Vulnerability Assessment Framework and Programme for Kosovo

Hizb ut-Tahrir between Radicalism and Nonviolence: A Review of Current Literature

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