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This briefing has been published alongside the 2012/2013 statistics on Operation of Police Powers under the Terrorism Act 2000 and subsequent legislation, to provide more detailed information. The short article is intended as additional analysis following a comment in the 2011 annual report by the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, David Anderson Q.C., identifying a perceived link between religion and sentence length for those arrested for terrorism-related offences.

鈥淪ome Muslims believe that there is a greater readiness on the part of press, politicians, police and law enforcement officers to characterise attacks by Muslims as 鈥榯errorism鈥� than attacks by far-right extremists. This, they say, results in discriminatory sentencing and cements popular perceptions of terrorism, at least in Great Britain, as crime perpetrated overwhelmingly by Muslims.鈥� (, David Anderson Q.C., June 2012, p.26).