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With [[Chris Pope]] Glees is the author of ''When Students Turn to Terror: Terrorist and Extremist Activity on British Campuses'' Published by the right wing [[Social Affairs Unit]] in Autumn 2005. At over 100 pages this is a longish report claiming to find evidence of Islamist, animal liberation and British National Party 'terrorism' on UK campuses. The report is intellectually worthless and simply a propaganda tool for use in encouraging the suppression of dissent in Universities. The basis of the evidence that there is 'terrorist activity' is simply that people who have been arrested under anti-Terrorism legislation attended universities at some point. On this basis there is also evidence of terrorist activity in schools, nurseries and for that matter even in mother's wombs, since all terrorists were once presumably there. | With [[Chris Pope]] Glees is the author of ''When Students Turn to Terror: Terrorist and Extremist Activity on British Campuses'' Published by the right wing [[Social Affairs Unit]] in Autumn 2005. At over 100 pages this is a longish report claiming to find evidence of Islamist, animal liberation and British National Party 'terrorism' on UK campuses. The report is intellectually worthless and simply a propaganda tool for use in encouraging the suppression of dissent in Universities. The basis of the evidence that there is 'terrorist activity' is simply that people who have been arrested under anti-Terrorism legislation attended universities at some point. On this basis there is also evidence of terrorist activity in schools, nurseries and for that matter even in mother's wombs, since all terrorists were once presumably there. | ||
| − | The report gained | + | The report gained widespread mainstream media attention [http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/000579.php] and little proper criticism. |
Here is a quote on the 'dangers' of the universities: | Here is a quote on the 'dangers' of the universities: | ||
:Instead of encouraging students to reflect on the values and virtues of liberal democracy, universities may be teaching them subjects or theoretical tools for understanding the world - Marxism for example - which could encourage them to believe Britain and other Western states are in terminal decline. Moving from campus to Mosque, students convinced by their dons might gain further inspiration from radical mullahs. (Anthony Glees and Chris Pope ''When Students Turn to Terror: Terrorist and Extremist Activity on British Campuses'', Social Affairs Unit, 2005, p. 15.) | :Instead of encouraging students to reflect on the values and virtues of liberal democracy, universities may be teaching them subjects or theoretical tools for understanding the world - Marxism for example - which could encourage them to believe Britain and other Western states are in terminal decline. Moving from campus to Mosque, students convinced by their dons might gain further inspiration from radical mullahs. (Anthony Glees and Chris Pope ''When Students Turn to Terror: Terrorist and Extremist Activity on British Campuses'', Social Affairs Unit, 2005, p. 15.) | ||
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| + | This kind of reasoning is a recipe for thought control and the constraining of education within the conservative lexicon where 'liberal democracy' is by definition good and any critique of it in practice bad. | ||
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| + | Sohaib Saeed, [http://www.iwitness.co.uk/scottish/0905s-09.htm Dundee students refute extremism smear] The I-Witness, 24 September 2005 | ||
Revision as of 08:34, 19 September 2006
Anthony Glees is the Director of Brunel Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies (BCISS)[1] at Brunel university on London.
With Chris Pope Glees is the author of When Students Turn to Terror: Terrorist and Extremist Activity on British Campuses Published by the right wing Social Affairs Unit in Autumn 2005. At over 100 pages this is a longish report claiming to find evidence of Islamist, animal liberation and British National Party 'terrorism' on UK campuses. The report is intellectually worthless and simply a propaganda tool for use in encouraging the suppression of dissent in Universities. The basis of the evidence that there is 'terrorist activity' is simply that people who have been arrested under anti-Terrorism legislation attended universities at some point. On this basis there is also evidence of terrorist activity in schools, nurseries and for that matter even in mother's wombs, since all terrorists were once presumably there.
The report gained widespread mainstream media attention [2] and little proper criticism.
Here is a quote on the 'dangers' of the universities:
- Instead of encouraging students to reflect on the values and virtues of liberal democracy, universities may be teaching them subjects or theoretical tools for understanding the world - Marxism for example - which could encourage them to believe Britain and other Western states are in terminal decline. Moving from campus to Mosque, students convinced by their dons might gain further inspiration from radical mullahs. (Anthony Glees and Chris Pope When Students Turn to Terror: Terrorist and Extremist Activity on British Campuses, Social Affairs Unit, 2005, p. 15.)
This kind of reasoning is a recipe for thought control and the constraining of education within the conservative lexicon where 'liberal democracy' is by definition good and any critique of it in practice bad.
External links
Sohaib Saeed, Dundee students refute extremism smear The I-Witness, 24 September 2005
