Sajid Javid speech: Home secretary says Islamist terrorists are twisting Muslim faith

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Home Secretary Sajid Javid said today that Islamist terrorists were falsely invoking the religion of his parents and grandparents.

Mr Javid, who is Britain’s first Muslim-heritage Home Secretary, said those who commit terror attacks and self-identify as Muslims are “twisting their faith”.

In a highly personal speech in which he outlined his new anti-terror strategy, Contest, he praised British Muslims leading the fight against extremists by “throwing them out of their mosques and countering their poison online”.

His new counter-terrorism Contest strategy could see MI5 intelligence on individuals of concern shared more widely across government, local authorities and police.

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