{"id":49320,"date":"2024-03-14T15:41:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T05:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=49320"},"modified":"2024-03-14T15:41:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T05:41:44","slug":"uk-government-unveils-new-extremism-definition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=49320","title":{"rendered":"UK government unveils new extremism definition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The UK government on Thursday unveiled a new definition of extremism, as church leaders warned it risked disproportionately affecting Muslim communities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The new definition comes after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak warned earlier this month of a &#8220;shocking increase in extremist disruption and criminality&#8221; that risked the country tipping into &#8220;mob rule&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Sunak&#8217;s comments, made in a Downing Street address to the nation, came after regular pro-Palestinian protests in London.<\/p>\n<p>The marches protesting Israel&#8217;s military response to the October 7 attacks by Hamas on southern Israel have seen dozens arrested for anti-Semitic chanting and banners, promoting a proscribed organisation and assaulting emergency workers.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, extremism is defined as &#8220;the vocal or active opposition to our fundamental values&#8221; such as &#8220;mutual respect and tolerance&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>According to the new definition, extremism is the &#8220;promotion or advancement of an ideology based on violence, hatred or intolerance&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Groups or individuals will be regarded as extremist if they use that ideology to &#8220;negate or destroy the fundamental rights and freedoms of others or undermine, overturn or replace the UK&#8217;s system of liberal parliamentary democracy and democratic rights&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>They will also be deemed extremist if they &#8220;intentionally create a permissive environment for others to achieve&#8221; the other two objectives.<\/p>\n<p>The government said in a statement that the new definition was &#8220;narrower and more precise&#8221; than the earlier 2011 definition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK government on Thursday unveiled a new definition of extremism, as church leaders warned it risked disproportionately affecting Muslim communities. The new definition comes after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak warned earlier this month of a &#8220;shocking increase in extremist disruption and criminality&#8221; that risked the country tipping into &#8220;mob rule&#8221;. Sunak&#8217;s comments, made in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[814],"class_list":["post-49320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-uk-government-unveils-new-extremism-definition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}