Prevent isn’t making anyone safer. It is demonising Muslims and damaging the fabric of trust in society | Letters

We welcome the call for an independent review into Prevent made by the independent reviewer of the UK's anti-terrorism laws, David Anderson QC, last week (Report, 3 February). One year ago the Prevent duty became statutory through the Counter-terrorism and Security Act 2015. This imposed a duty on public bodies to have "due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism".

As a wide cross-section of Muslim community activists, academics, lawyers and politicians warned, the duty has in practice charged teachers, doctors and other professionals with monitoring people's religious and political views. This is undermining the very ethos and relationships of mutual trust and openness that are fundamental to education and our public services while endangering other legal rights and protections. It is eroding civil liberties and deepening discrimination against Muslims.