Israel Must Neither Reward Nor Excessively Punish Palestinian Terror
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December 2, 2015
The UK may be paying the wrong people to turn Muslim youth away from terrorism.
The United Kingdom has created or sponsored programs to bring young Muslims deemed at risk of radicalization into contact with Muslim “anti-extremists” who will help them toward a more peaceable vision of their religion. While these anti-extremists are genuinely opposed to Islamic State and al-Qaeda, writes John Ware, their views about Israel are far from moderate. One of them, the government-approved mentor Hanif Qadir, refers to Palestinians who stab Jewish civilians as “resistance fighters”:
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The UK may be paying the wrong people to turn Muslim youth away from terrorism.
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