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Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6926964.ece
UK Envoys Called Back to Calm British Muslims
(Times-UK) Marie Woolf - British ambassadors to Muslim countries are traveling back to Britain to help counter the propaganda of radical Islamic clerics. So far 25 senior diplomats have met Muslims in radical hotspots such as Luton, where, earlier this year, troops returning from Iraq were jeered on the streets by extremists. The meetings are part of the Prevent initiative, which was set up after the London suicide bombings in July 2005 to stop people becoming terrorists or coming under the influence of "anti-British" ideas. The Foreign Office is also paying for senior British Muslims to travel to Pakistan and other Muslim countries to counter stories about the maltreatment of Muslims in the UK.