article_snippet: David Cameron wants a total campus ban on extremists whose twisted views risk radicalising impressionable youngsters.
article_snippet: Security experts believe the freedom of extremists to operate at college campuses is a significant factor in the radicalisation of some young people.
article_snippet: the University of Westminster has been described as a 'hotbed' for radicalism in the past but denies inciting extremism in any form .
article_snippet: What the Conservatives seem to be wanting to do is to introduce, against British values of free speech, a new type of rule that says that the state will know what “extremism” is.
article_snippet: The phrase “extremism” they are talking about is nebulous, it is unclear, and there is a danger the Conservatives will clamp down on free speech and that will be giving in to the terrorists.
article_snippet: Under the Prime Minister’s plans, universities would have a duty to take a ‘precautionary approach’ to events featuring extremists.
article_snippet: Vice-chancellors would be expected to cancel any event where there was a ‘risk that the content will potentially draw people into terrorism’.
article_snippet: saying they [universities] need to do more to stop radicalisation on campus’.
highlights_snippet: University of Westminster has been described as a 'hotbed' for radicalism in the past .
  
highlights_snippet: But the institution repeatedly denies inciting extremism in any form .