The ‘war on terror’ on campus threatens important freedoms

Against a background of increasing claims that universities in the United Kingdom provide environments conducive to the inculcation of Islamic radicalism, Ian Cram argues that we must seriously reconsider the assumptions on which such a view rests. Given the relatively large percentage of young persons attending higher or further education institutions in the last decade, it would be surprising if universities were entirely insulated from such radicalism.