Asim Qureshi responds to Nazir Afzal’s critique of those campaigning against UK’s counter-extremism strategy Prevent.


Asim Qureshi is the Research Director at CAGE, a UK-based advocacy organisation.
Asim Qureshi responds to Nazir Afzal’s critique of those campaigning against UK’s counter-extremism strategy Prevent.

The recent assassination of an imam in Mombasa fans the flames of existing grievances among Kenya’s Muslims.
![Abubakar Shariff was assassinated on April 1, 2013 [AP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/2014411152124694734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Passport removal becomes the newest measure in the British Home Secretary’s ever-expanding arsenal.
![UK Home Secretary Theresa May, unable to prove any of the terror allegations against radical Islamist Abu Qatada, tried to deport him for being 'undesirable' [Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/2013106124244489734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)