Category Archives: Terrorism

Baron-Cohen on Anders Breivik

Anders Breivik: cold and calculating, yes – but insane? (from today’s Guardian) This article by Simon Baron-Cohen appeared in today’s Guardian and questions the diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia given him by “independent” experts in a 1,518-page report this week. According … Continue reading

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Young adult marriage visa ban: unjust, now unlawful

Supreme Court overturns non-EU young spouses ban (from BBC News) The UK Supreme Court has ruled that a government ban on British citizens bringing spouses under the age of 21 from outside the EU to live in the UK, introduced … Continue reading

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Eurabian nightmare

The end of Eurabia - FT.com Ths image is from the Spectator, the British political magazine, and represents what passed for journalism on the European and American right during the post-9/11 era. The occasion for this was a series of … Continue reading

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On Norway

This past weekend was dominated by two major death-related news stories: the bombing and subsequent massacre in Norway on Friday, and the death (to me at least, sudden and unexpected) of the singer, Amy Winehouse, in London on Saturday. Readers … Continue reading

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Osama bin Laden and Islamic burial

Osama bin Laden did not deserve an Islamic burial | Stephen Suleyman Schwartz | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Stephen Schwartz wrote this article for Comment is Free (run by the Guardian) on the subject of the “burial” given to … Continue reading

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Posted in Stephen Schwartz, Terrorism, War in Iraq & Afghanistan | 6 Comments

The things that don’t add up about OBL’s death

Since I heard the news about Osama bin Laden’s alleged killing in Pakistan, a few things have not seemed right about the official story. They have offered absolutely no proof that the job has been done, and yet the media … Continue reading

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Posted in Terrorism, War in Iraq & Afghanistan | 9 Comments

The offender and the offended

Warning to the US: Don't Play by Islamic Rules (from Standpoint magazine) This article is Douglas Murray’s treatment of the so-called Ground Zero Mosque controversy, in which he smears Muslims by equating them with al-Qa’ida, praises Newt Gingrich as a … Continue reading

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Posted in Douglas Murray, Islamophobia, Terrorism, USA | 1 Comment

Yes, the law DOES apply to middle-class White people

This past week or so, there have been two major news stories in the UK about men arrested for saying things on the Internet that made a strong suggestion of violence that may not have been meant, but because of … Continue reading

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Posted in Extremism, Islamophobia, Racism, Terrorism, Transport | 1 Comment

Who’s radicalising who?

Today it was revealed that a report commissioned by University College London, the college where Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who attempted to bomb a plane from Amsterdam to the USA last December, concluded that he was not radicalised while at the … Continue reading

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White guy threatens to bomb airport, gets slap on wrist, much whingeing ensues

Last week a guy called Paul Chambers was fined a total of £1,000 (all but £385 of which was either costs or a “victim surcharge”) for posting a tweet threatening to blow up an airport. The guy was delayed at … Continue reading

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Bombs in breast implants?!

The Sun today put out a story alleging that female suicide bombers were being fitted with bombs disguised within breast implants so that they couldn’t be detected by airport screening devices, according to “terrorist expert” Joseph Farah. Supposedly, the method … Continue reading

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Posted in Media, Terrorism | 11 Comments

Further thoughts on Qadri fatwa

A couple of weeks ago I posted an entry about Dr Tahir ul-Qadri’s fatwa condemning suicide bombings. It seems to have provoked the biggest debate of pretty much any recent post on here since I introduced moderation a number of … Continue reading

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Posted in Organisations & Leadership, Terrorism | 12 Comments

Qadri’s fatwa breaks no new ground

The London Evening Standard yesterday had a two-page feature on a forthcoming fatwa by the leader of the Minhaj-ul-Quran group, Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, which unequivocally condemns suicide bombings. The feature is dominated by a picture of an al-Muhajiroun demonstration, but … Continue reading

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Posted in Organisations & Leadership, Terrorism | 225 Comments

Attempt to link Islamic societies to terrorism

Last Thursday BBC Radio 4 broadcast a Report programme in which they attempted to “investigate” the links between British university Islamic societies (or ISocs) with terrorism, on the basis that Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalib, who attempted to blow up a plane … Continue reading

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Posted in Ed Husain, Shiraz Maher, Education, Organisations & Leadership, Terrorism | 19 Comments

Juan Cole: Bin Laden tape irrelevant

Informed Comment: The Irrelevance of Bin Ladin Juan Cole on why the latest Bin Laden tape is most probably faked, as its contents are not in keeping with his past style and wasn’t picked up by agencies which monitor radical … Continue reading

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Terrorism and privacy

So, once again a terrorist associated with al-Qa’ida has nearly taken out an aeroplane, and governments are scrabbling around trying to find ways to prevent that exact type of attack from ever happening again. This time, we are being threatened … Continue reading

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Posted in Civil liberties, Terrorism | 7 Comments

More scaremongering over ISOCs and al-Qa’ida

Following the nonsense in the Daily Mail from Melanie Phillips (last entry) on Monday, there is a front-page story in the Times this morning claiming that the guy who tried to bomb the plane to Detroit last week had been … Continue reading

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My thoughts on Lockerbie ‘bomber’ release

Today, Abdul-Basit Ali al-Megrahi, the man convicted of planting the bomb which destroyed a Pan Am jet over Lockerbie in Scotland in 1988, was released on compassionate grounds as he is terminally ill with prostate cancer. This has understandably provoked … Continue reading

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Terrorists getting easy ride from media and law

New Statesman - Know your enemy Mehdi Hasan, the New Statesman’s senior politics editor, on a man stopped in his tracks while preparing to use tennis balls as bombs, whose case hardly got any coverage in the national media because … Continue reading

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Posted in Media, Terrorism | 3 Comments

“If you dislike them, report them”

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