Which poses the greater threat: Islamist or far-right terror? That has become the focus of much of the debate around William Shawcross’s review of Britain’s Prevent anti-terror strategy published last week.
Most people with knowledge of the issue accept that while far-right terror is the fastest growing threat, Islamist terrorism remains the biggest problem. The danger in posing the issue in this fashion, however, is both that it can turn into a zero-sum game in which one threat is played off against the other and that the underlying issues with Prevent become obscured.
