[…An] important strand of the British effort is what the UK government calls the \u201cPrevent\u201d\u009d strategy. This involves the police and local authorities working with Muslim organisations and communities to ensure that British nationals who become radicalised are identified and encouraged to channel their anger before they resort to violence.<\/p>\n
Professor Michael Clarke, an expert on counter-terrorism at the Royal United Services Institute, a think-tank, says the strategy has had some success. \u201cIt is about getting the Muslim community to accept responsibility for people in their midst, helping to identify those who are radicalised and working with the police and local authorities to stop them before they plan attacks,\u201d\u009d he says….like a number of UK experts, he argues that the US has been slow to tackle \u201chomegrown\u201d\u009d jihadism pre-emptively. \u201cThe Americans find it hard to accept that jihadism can arise from within their own society. They still feel the phenomenon is pushed into the US by outside forces or foreign actors.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n
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