UK Prime Minister David Cameron has announced a series of measures to silence dissenting views - and to ban lawful religious practice – saying they fall outside his definition of "British values".

Former Metropolitan Police Commander, Dal Babu, has argued that the government's counter-extremism policy, 'Prevent', has become a 'toxic brand' viewed with suspicion by Muslims in the UK. His comments were reported a day after the Sunday Telegraph announced a planned extension of counter-extremism powers by Home Secretary Theresa May,

After six months of detention, Moazzam Begg was released today after the British government dropped all charges against him related to travelling to Syria. Regarding this development, Taji Mustafa, media representative of Hizb ut Tahrir in Britain said:

An article in the Daily Mail [18.2.2014], written by Richard Littlejohn [Jolly Jihadi Boy's Outing to Legoland], has smeared as ‘extremists' and ‘terrorists' those participating (organisers, helpers and paying visitors) in a forthcoming ‘Family Fun Day' at the theme park LEGOLAND, by reinforcing the false narrative that argues ‘the more practicing a Muslim is, the closer he or she is to acts of violence and murder'. In relation to this…