I found the story below, about the Saracen’s Head in Birmingham in the next column to this story, also from the Birmingham Post.
MUSLIMS across Birmingham believe the police and security services are constantly monitoring their movements and feel “imprisoned in their own city”, a performance report into government anti-terrorism projects claims today.
An independent analysis into 11 community-based projects under the Preventing Violent Extremism initiative warns that law-abiding Muslims worry about being demonised by the way violent extremism is routinely associated with Islam in the media and by those in authority.
The report, by Waterhouse Consulting Group, based on interviews with individuals and organisations, praises most of the council-run projects aimed at discouraging young people from drifting into terrorist activity, but adds that extreme tensions are not far beneath the surface.
“Central government and local authorities must understand the extent of the deep anger and concern among Muslims at grassroots level over the linkage of violent extremism with Islam.
“This has helped to demonise and vilify Muslims in a climate where Islamophbia is already heightened.”
Even the name given by the government to the £525,000 year-long programme provoked anger among the Islamic community.
The Waterhouse report suggests abandoning the Preventing Violent Extremism title for “more acceptable phraseology”. How about Preventing  Jihad and Dawa?
Almost 400 young Muslims benefitted directly from the first phase of PVE.
The analysis fully supports plans for 12 more projects in Birmingham, at a cost of £2.4 million and calls for more to be done to tackle the radicalisation of mosques, bring Islamic schools into the “mainstream” and to empower Muslim women.
The next round of PVE funding should be broadened to cover the “critical area” of all aspects facing the life of Muslim women in Birmingham, the report recommends.
So the Muslims of Brum say give us the money, the lovely, lovely, lolly, just don’t dare suggest that our community is in any way different with a potential for violence.