Tony
A colleague in a university in the North of England was concerned about the way her university was implementing the government strategy to combat religious extremism, primarily aimed at Muslims, called Prevent. She was going to express her disquiet at a meeting of the University Senate, the collective meeting of all the staff of the University. Before she went she mentioned this intention at a departmental meeting in her Faculty. To her astonishment the head of department started to cry, saying: ‘if you do that they will close down our department!’ She did not go.