Lecturer suspended for exposing handling of ‘terrorist’ students
A popular Professor lecturer at Nottingham University has been suspended for exposing how university management aided the arrest of two innocent students as suspected terrorists. Dr Rod Thornton, a...
View ArticleWhy on earth is Anjem Choudary invited to speak at Hay philosophy festival?
contribution by Lucy James Over the last week a few complaints have been levelled against the invitation of Anjem Choudary, a founding member of the banned Islamist organisations al-Muhajiroun and...
View ArticleBin Laden: the ethics of state assassination
Both Johann Hari and I were in the United States when the news broke that Osama bin Laden had finally obtained his wish to secure shaheed status. The well-known Independent columnist tells of mingling...
View ArticleBe careful of over-reaction to Muslim “campus extremism”
contribution by Tehmina Kazi The issue of campus extremism is never far from the spotlight, and the Government’s recent review of the “Preventing Violent Extremism” strategy has once again brought it...
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Anders Breivik wasn’t a “lone wolf”, he was part of a movement
Right-wing pundits are now very keen to tell us that the Norwegian terror attacks were not caused by right-wing anti-multicultural ideology. The fact that Anders Breivik quoted Daily Mail articles in...
View ArticleWhat are people like Melanie Phillips calling for then?
Melanie Phillips and the gaggle of paranoids that make up the internet’s nutty ‘Counter-Jihad’ movement are loudly insisting that they don’t advocate acts of violence or terrorism. For now, let’s...
View ArticleThe ‘madness’ of terrorism and other offensive terms
contribution by Nicky Clark Without the slightest medical evidence to back up the claims the medical status of the Norwegian killer has been firmly established in all of our minds. He is depending or...
View ArticleWas Anders Breivik a ‘fascist’ or something else?
I think the main problem with accurately labelling Breivik is that as yet we haven’t come up with a convincing catch-all term for the new far right, which on the surface eschews racism but which...
View ArticleDon’t flatter yourself Melanie Phillips – it’s called a political debate
We already know that Melanie Phillips inhabits a weird parallel universe. Now she thinks I’m “obsessed” by her, merely I’ve pointed out the glaring holes in her recent articles. Don’t flatter yourself...
View ArticleMurdered scientist: blundering towards war with Iran
Tension is not reduced by murdering scientists. A fourth Iranian scientist was killed yesterday. Tehran has been rocked by unexplained explosions. A cyber attack was conducted against Iran. War...
View ArticleAbu Qatada deportation: what about our principles?
It seems only last month that we were discussing why Abu Qatada should or shouldn’t be deported. The government of whichever hue convinced isd still trying to deport him back to Jordan, with those few...
View ArticleOur student union was supposed to protect us, not spy on us
contribution by Sacha Hassan As a young Muslim student I’ve been increasing aware of intimidation and harassment of British Muslims by the police seemingly for no other reason than our shared religion....
View ArticleSyria is proof we need a global arms-trade treaty
contribution by Jack Barker For over a year the ruthless Assad dictatorship in Syria has terrorised and murdered thousands of its own people. The bodies of adults and children have been burnt and...
View ArticleHow the Olympics Pwned the Terrorists
A final thought on the Olympics – it was a giant middle-finger towards the terrorists, wasn’t it? I remember that week in 2005 very well. As well as the announcement confirming we had won the Olympic...
View ArticleOperation Flex: the most incompetent FBI sting ever?
contribution by Tom Costello When the FBI announces, as it has done numerous times in recent years, that it has thwarted a home-grown Islamist terror plot, the American media greets the announcement...
View ArticleWhy do lefties keep ignoring the threat of the Taliban to Pakistanis?
The New York Times made a poignant and very worrying documentary in 2009 on how the Taliban were ruling parts of Pakistan and had issued a command that all girls should stop attending schools. The...
View ArticleNick Griffin’s nasty piece of intimidation
By Tom Bailey Following the ruling in the legal case related to the refusal of a gay couple to stay in a Bed and Breakfast, Nick Griffin tweeted the address of that couple. Others have discussed...
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How Cameron undermined the case for Trident with his article today
Prime Minister David Cameron has today written an op-ed for the Daily Telegraph arguing that ‘we need a nuclear deterrent more than ever’. But rather than making an effective case for Trident it shows...
View ArticleWhat do we bicker about, when bickering about ‘terrorism’?
What do we bicker about, when we bicker about terrorism? More or less everything except terrorism, is my suspicion. Here are a few of my observations about the responses I’ve seen to the...
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How the Paris attacks are likely to change the approach of western...
The New York Times has published an extraordinary account of how the two terrorists who burst into Charlie Hebdo’s office became radicalised. Here are a few thoughts from the article, and more...
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No, watching ISIS videos does NOT make you complicit in its terrorism
If you watch ISIS’s videos you are complicit in its terrorism, says Nesrine Malik at the Guardian. Sorry, but this is ludicrous for various reasons. I have watched a fair amount of ISIS videos,...
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We badly screwed up in Libya, and it’s time to admit that
There are usually two kinds of people who like to commentate on foreign policy matters: those who oppose any military ‘intervention’ in the affairs of other countries; and those who have no problems...
View ArticleWhat Jihadi John and CAGE said yesterday about how people are ‘driven to...
Imagine this scenario. A white atheist kills a Muslim couple in cold blood. The media speculates endlessly about the “factors” that drove him to kill them: apparently he had a parking dispute with...
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Why many on the left need to change their approach to ISIS
When Islamic State came to notoriety last year, many commentators including myself made assumptions about its plans. I wrote for Al-Jazeera that it “poses a far greater threat to Muslims than it does...
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Cameron’s case for attacking ISIS in Syria is flimsy, but I can see why...
Whether Britain acts against ISIL in Syria isn’t about provoking them or if they pose a threat, but whether our actions will be effective and justified. Whatever we decide, we will get attacked by...
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