56 day detention?

As mentioned before, an authoritarian government needs to generate a climate of fear to stay in power. This 28, 56 and 90-day detention stuff helps Nulab achieve this goal in several ways:

1. It scares mainstream Muslims and acts as a recruiting sergeant for Islamists, who in turn scare mainstream Muslims even more as well as scaring the pants off the general public.

2. So there's a knock-on effect that Nulab have an excuse to step up 'security' measures, like ID cards and also have an excuse to fund Muslim and Islamist groups to make it look they are on the side of Muslims.

3. It makes people worry about how bad the terror threat might really be, along the lines of "Crikey, if we have to go to such extreme measures, it must be pretty dire"

4. Having stoked up Islamism and wound up mainstream Muslims and the general public to hysteria via steps 1. to 3. above, Nulab can then play the "tough on terror" card, the Brave Protecting Party.

5. And of course, this generates tons of taxpayer-funded work for 'human rights' lawyers, doublesplusgood!

It's all rather neat and circular and self-fulfilling, without making people the slightest bit safer and probably making things worse all round.