'Cultural enclaves fuel extremism'

SEGREGATED communities and “increasingly diluted and confused” national values are fuelling the risk of more homegrown extremists, an expert has warned.

- By Michael Knowles

Robin Simcox said different faiths and cultures failing to mix created “permissive” environments for radicalisation. The outgoing Commissioner for Countering Extremism said politicians had not addressed the “failure” of multiculturalism amid fears of increasing Islamist extremism and the growing far-Right.