Arun Kundnani, author of The Muslims Are Coming! and expert on Islamophobia after the war on terror, speaks about responses to the violence in Paris and its political aftermath. We are publishing an extract from the interview, which can be read in full at Open Democracy.
"ISIS’s recruits are not corrupted by ideology but by the end of ideology. More radicalisation, in the genuine sense of the word, is the solution, not the problem."The attacks on Paris last Friday, 13th November, have prompted a predictable response: bombs abroad and a further restriction of civil liberties at home, not to mention a ratcheting up of Islamophobia. Sebastian Budgen analyses the wisdom of this approach.
This is perhaps the moment to take a step back to review the brilliance of West's counterrorist strategy, which we can then admire in all its strategic and tactical coherence: