The government's strategy to prevent violent extremism has stigmatised and alienated Muslims it wants to work with, a committee of MPs has warned.
The communities and local government committee said the Prevent programme was backfiring and it was difficult to know what good it was doing.
Millions have been spent on projects aimed at countering al-Qaeda's threat.
The Department for Communities said it was disappointed the report had not recognised important reforms.
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Dr Starkey told the BBC that it was very difficult to measure whether any of Prevent's spending was doing any good at all and that many local authorities needed more help in running its programmes.
She said that many Muslims suspected they were being spied upon by Prevent projects and that the government had also sought to engineer a "moderate" Islam by promoting some groups over others.
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I can imagine the chaps in government, when starting Prevent, saying "This HAS to work, the alternative is too horrible to imagine." And now it appears not to have worked.