The Muslims are coming! - Arun Kundnani

The new front in the War on Terror is the "homegrown enemy," domestic
terrorists who have become the focus of sprawling counterterrorism
structures of policing and surveillance in the United States and across
Europe. Domestic surveillance has mushroomed - at least 100,000 Muslims
in America have been secretly under scrutiny. British police compiled a
secret suspect list of more than 8,000 al-Qaeda "sympathizers," and in
another operation included almost 300 children fifteen and under among
the potential extremists investigated. MI5 doubled in size in just five
years.

Based on several years of research and reportage, in
locations as disperate as Texas, New York and Yorkshire, and written in
engrossing, precise prose, this is the first comprehensive critique of
counterradicalization strategies. The new policy and policing campaigns
have been backed by an industry of freshly minted experts and liberal
commentators. The Muslims Are Coming! looks at the way these debates have been transformed by the embrace of a narrowly configured and ill-conceived antiextremism.