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Terrorism! So now Brexit Gov Says Autistics are Terrorists

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    …..Autism and radicalisation – A “staggeringly high” number of people with autism are referred to the government’s anti-radicalisation Prevent programme, according to Jonathan Hall QC, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation. In a speech, Hall is to acknowledge “a very real and respectable fear that making any sort of link will lead to stigma … Is the use of strong powers to detect and investigate suspected terrorism in children justified? I believe it is because of the potential risk to the general public. But is the criminal justice outcome the right one in all cases?” Clare Hughes, criminal justice manager at the National Autistic Society, said: “The vast majority of the 700,000 autistic people in the UK are law-abiding” and called for sensitive, accurate and balanced” media reporting. Marking the 16th anniversary of the 7/7 terrorist attacks that killed 72 people, Hall will say the greatest risk remains an Islamist attack but the most dynamic new category is defined by investigators as mixed, unclear or uncertain (MUU) ideology, a category that does not prescribe to one specific doctrine…..

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  • Not sure what this has to do with Brexit. The vast majority of autistic people are law abiding citizens, but in the wrong circumstances autistic people are probably easier to radicalise. There is no denying that, but it's no reason to treat all autistic people as criminals.

    Autistic people get obsessed with a topic and don't have the usual social norms to stop them from researching things they shouldn't be researching (such as Wahhabist or extreme interpretations of the Quran, or things relating to conspiracy theories).

    There is a lot wrong with the world, so it's easy to get radicalised when you have black and white thinking and start noticing things. It just depends what information you get exposed to. This is even more true when you don't have regular contact with "normal" people to keep you grounded. Autistic people can often be quite isolated.

    So it's easy for a Muslim in his bedroom or a white nationalist in his bedroom to become a terrorist. Part of it is a way to deal with the feelings of powerlessness - the inability to change the things one perceives as horrible can lead people down a dark path.

    Autistic people can also lead to great things when given the appropriate outlet (sciences/computers/engineering or any project that benefits from intense focus on details).

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  • Not sure what this has to do with Brexit. The vast majority of autistic people are law abiding citizens, but in the wrong circumstances autistic people are probably easier to radicalise. There is no denying that, but it's no reason to treat all autistic people as criminals.

    Autistic people get obsessed with a topic and don't have the usual social norms to stop them from researching things they shouldn't be researching (such as Wahhabist or extreme interpretations of the Quran, or things relating to conspiracy theories).

    There is a lot wrong with the world, so it's easy to get radicalised when you have black and white thinking and start noticing things. It just depends what information you get exposed to. This is even more true when you don't have regular contact with "normal" people to keep you grounded. Autistic people can often be quite isolated.

    So it's easy for a Muslim in his bedroom or a white nationalist in his bedroom to become a terrorist. Part of it is a way to deal with the feelings of powerlessness - the inability to change the things one perceives as horrible can lead people down a dark path.

    Autistic people can also lead to great things when given the appropriate outlet (sciences/computers/engineering or any project that benefits from intense focus on details).

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