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Gove faces legal action threats after suggesting Muslim groups are extremist
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Michael Gove is facing threats of legal action after naming Muslim organisations that could fall foul of a new definition of extremism.
Amid free speech fears among Conservatives, the communities secretary told MPs that the advocacy groups Muslim Association of Britain (MAB), Mend and Cage were organisations with “Islamist orientation and beliefs” that could be included on a list of groups banned from access to public money, ministers and civil servants.
Gove also named the British National Socialist Movement and Patriotic Alternative as groups that promoted neo-Nazi ideology that would also be examined.
The new definition, which will be distributed across government and Whitehall, will say: “Extremism is the promotion or advancement of an ideology based on violence, hatred or intolerance, that aims to: 1) negate or destroy the fundamental rights and freedoms of others; or 2) undermine, overturn or replace the UK’s system of liberal parliamentary democracy and democratic rights; or 3) intentionally create a permissive environment for others to achieve the results in 1) or 2).”
Waleed Sheikh, a partner at the law firm Leigh Day who specialises in judicial reviews, said the definition was open to a challenge because it was “extremely broad”.
The moves follow a sixfold increase in antisemitic incidents and a fourfold jump in anti-Muslim hatred in the UK since Hamas’s terrorist attack on Israel on 7 October.
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