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The eastern city of chittagong. now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking. the queen has expressed her hope that her platinum jubilee celebrations will focus on what brings us together, on what unites us, not what divides us. my guest on the programme has had to spend much of her career worrying about exactly the opposite, about extremism and how to counter it. she is dame sara khan. herjob now is the governments independent adviser for socia...

Then dominated and said, "well, this is what prevent is about," or people who were concerned about prevent thinking it was a spying operation when it clearly wasnt, there have clearly been mistakes in the past i mean, the example of the spy cameras in birmingham very early on in prevent�*s stages, there were issues like that which caused detrimental failures and people not respect or appreciate the programme, so those types of challenges have continued, and i think having that engagement, cont...

Now, when there was an independent piece of research done by crest, they show that actually 56% of british muslims had never even heard of prevent, and when there was a neutral explanation of the programme, 80% of muslims would give their support to that programme. it is prevent, this anti—extremism, anti—terrorism programme, that has made you a controversial figure. it took baroness warsi, the former conservative party chair who described you as a creation of and mouthpiece for the home off...

Policy of disengagement. i want to get to the essence of this. is this really an argument about who speaks up for the muslim community or communities, plural, or is there a fundamental debate about whether there is, in inverted commas, and i do stress in inverted commas, a muslim problem, as was captured in the title of your book, reclaiming muslim identity from extremism? and i think when she made that comment, to be honest ijust found it really bizarre and strange, because she had never actual...

Engagement, continuing to engage with communities, explainign what the pressing concerns are and i think that has got to continue in a much better way than we have seen previously. but are you sure a young sara khan, wearing a headscarf, going to talks by people talking about no doubt sharia, the spread of it, talking about a global caliphate, are you sure that a programme like that now would not have looked at you when you were growing up and said look, we ought to get her in? look, i can only ...

On what unites us, not what divides us. my guest on the programme has had to spend much of her career worrying about exactly the opposite, about extremism and how to counter it. she is dame sara khan. herjob now is the governments independent adviser for social cohesion and resilience. before that, she was the countrys first counter—extremism commissioner. born and raised in bradford to pakistani parents, she once said, "there is something going horribly wrong with the muslim communities. we n...

You have turkish muslims, you have yemeni muslims, you have from all backgrounds, socioeconomic backgrounds, class, education, everything, and the idea that everyone thinks the same is just complete nonsense. as a classic example, the mcb as you mentioned, they constantly said that the muslim community has rejected prevent. now, when there was an independent piece of research done by crest, they shared that actually 56% of british muslims had never even heard of prevent, and when there was a neu...

Is totally counter—productive. you have talked about prevent not being perfect, about there being problems. it is under review, but what are you thinking of? i mean, there are lots of things that i saw. if people and if the government for example, and they did not do this effectively, they did not go out and explain to muslim communities what prevent is about, and in essence they left a vacuum, which in essence they left a vacuum, which when islamist then dominated and said this is what preven...

With deals worth over AED25 million ($6.81 million) signed during the show, Gulf Print and Pack (GPP) 2022 concluded on a high note at the Dubai World Trade Centre last week.

With deals worth over AED25 million ($6.81 million) signed during the show, Gulf Print and Pack (GPP) 2022 concluded on a high note at the Dubai World Trade Centre last week.