article_snippet: preacher who defended the Charlie Hebdo massacre just hours after the attacks were carried out has branded taxpayer-funded deradicalisation schemes a 'scam'.
article_snippet: It's just a scam - the whole thing is a money-making scheme.
article_snippet: They are making a lot of money from the Government and actually doing nothing with it.'
article_snippet: However, the Government's Prevent strategy has been widely condemned as failing, and with an approximate budget of £40million per year, an extremely expensive one.
article_snippet: However, the programme has been widely condemned.
article_snippet: Among the issues plaguing the initiative is the impossibility to assess the initiative effectiveness as well as the initiative potential to create an 'us and them' mindset in the communities the initiative targets, and stigmatise Muslims.
article_snippet: The Home Office said the initiative was 'fundamentally revised' in 2011.