Counter-terrorism

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 22 March 2010.

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Photo of Alan Johnson Alan Johnson The Secretary of State for the Home Department 2:30, 22 March 2010

First I should say that the threat comes from violent extremism. There are people with all kinds of views with which we may disagree, but it is when those views turn into violent extremism that counter-terrorism kicks in and those views become unacceptable. On sharia law, I should say that the law of this country is absolutely paramount. Where sharia law has been introduced in some small experiments in local communities it does not, in any way, subvert or detract from the law of this country.