Islam
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has a working definition of Islamism.
Answered by Dan Jarvis
In the context relevant to the Home Office’s responsibility for tackling Islamist extremism or terrorism the UK’s counter-terrorism strategy CONTEST says that Islamist terrorism is the threat or use of violence as a means to establish a strict interpretation of an Islamic society.
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