LONDON—British Prime Minister David Cameron unveiled new plans to combat extremism Monday, Oct. 19, expanding the government’s power to seize passports from young people at risk of traveling abroad to join groups like ISIS.
Cameron challenged Muslim communities to “own” the problem, arguing that those who reject extremism were the key to driving out radicals in schools, universities, local councils, charities, and prisons. He defined the fight against Islamist extremism as one of the great struggles of the era.
“In responding to this poisonous ideology, we face a choice. Do we close our eyes, put our kid gloves on, and just hope that our values will somehow endure in the end?” he wrote in the strategy document. “Or do we get out there and make the case for those values, defend them with all that we’ve got, and resolve to win the battle of ideas all over again?”
