UK Muslim and rights groups have condemned ex-Prime Minister David Cameron’s defence of the controversial Prevent programme, calling it “blatant Islamophobia”. Prevent was conceived as a strategy to reduce the threat of terrorism in the UK by identifying individuals vulnerable to radicalisation and providing intervention to stop them from becoming radicalised. The policy has been repeatedly rebuked for targeting Muslims, and fostering a culture of hostility and discrimination, by the community group Muslim Engagement & Development (MEND) as well as other leading campaign groups, including Amne…