June 9, 2017
Blind, bovine hope will get us nowhere – it’s time to change our response to Islamic extremism
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By Douglas Murray.
This article originally appeared in The Daily Mail.
Last Sunday, I appeared on the BBC’s Sunday Politics to discuss the aftermath of the Manchester attack. I said what I thought, and various Muslim groups promptly went bananas.
This was not ...
June 7, 2017
Hate speech spreads too easily in online spaces – here’s how social media can stop it
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By Nikita Malik.
This article originally appeared in The Telegraph.
The last few months have seen three tragic terrorist attacks occur in the United Kingdom in quick succession. The question we now find ourselves asking is what more could have been done to prevent ...
June 7, 2017
The Error of Arming the Syrian Kurds
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By Kyle Orton. This article originally appeared in The New York Times.
LONDON — The United States recently committed itself to arming the Kurdish People’s Protection Units, known as the Y.P.G., to help evict the Islamic State from its Syrian stronghold, Raqqa. ...
June 6, 2017
Why Trump’s wrong to obsess over terrorists’ nationality rather than developing a smart plan to defeat their ideology
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This article originally appeared in the New York Daily News.
By Nikita Malik.
As the most recent terrorist attacks unfolded in London, President Trump took to Twitter to express anger and frustration towards the resistance to the travel bans he has sought ...
June 5, 2017
Why Russia (probably) isn’t hacking the general election
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By Dr Andrew Foxall.
This article originally appeared in CapX.
Ever since 18 April, when Theresa May called the election, a key question has been whether Russia would interfere in the democratic process. In Whitehall, that question has been treated as a ...
June 4, 2017
The Terrorists Are Clear, It Isn’t About Foreign Policy
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By Tom Wilson
This article originally appeared in CapX.
Today, Jeremy Corbyn gave a speech claiming that UK foreign policy “increases the threat” to this country, suggesting that this has been a cause of terrorism on British soil.
The old debate about terrorist ...
June 4, 2017
Britain Must Ramp Up Its Fight Against Islamic Extremists
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By Tom Wilson
This article originally appeared in The National Interest.
Last week, the United Kingdom’s terror-threat level was deemed critical and armed forces were deployed on British streets. It is difficult to see what further security measures the government could put ...
May 31, 2017
Why do Islamists kill? Because they hate women… so where does this hatred come from?
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By Douglas Murray
This article originally appeared in The Sun.
EVEN after all these years, all these attacks and all these dead, the West still keeps asking the same question: “Who would do such a thing?”
The answer is always the same.
Sometimes the ...
May 31, 2017
Terrorism & Security
Efforts to stamp out Islamism need community support to work
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By Nikita Malik
This article originally appeared in The Telegraph.
Last week, towards the end of his journey, Trump visited Belgium. Like its neighbour France, the city has been besieged by Islamist terror attacks that have intensified in recent years. The President’s trip focused ...
May 25, 2017
Loose-lipped Americans cannot be allowed to put our counter-terrorist efforts at risk
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By Timothy Stafford
This article originally appeared in The Telegraph
Early on Tuesday morning, British police requested that the identity of the Manchester bomber – then unknown to the public at large – not be circulated. That Salman Abedi’s name was subsequently made ...