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More news from the clampdown.

Universities urged to spy on Muslims

Lecturers and university staff across Britain are to be asked to spy on "Asian-looking" and Muslim students they suspect of involvement in Islamic extremism and supporting terrorist violence, the Guardian has learned.

They will be told to inform on students to special branch because the government believes campuses have become "fertile recruiting grounds" for extremists.

The Department for Education has drawn up a series of proposals which are to be sent to universities and other centres of higher education before the end of the year. The 18-page document acknowledges that universities will be anxious about passing information to special branch, for fear it amounts to "collaborating with the 'secret police'". It says there will be "concerns about police targeting certain sections of the student population (eg Muslims)".

Well thats certainly going to spread mistrust and resentment, on the one hand the government keeps telling the Muslim community to deal with their extremists then they insist on having lectuerers spy on Muslims, which will no doubt drive young disaffected Muslims into the arms of the extremists, its a self perptuating cycle.

This is NuLab at its most mangerial, needing to control very tiny detail and interefering in people's lives.