France gets priorities right in war against Islamist terror
The West must mobilize pop culture to overcome ISIS. The question is whether young Muslims can overcome their possible cultural alienation in Western countries, particularly France, with the largest Muslim population in Europe. But France is now taking the lead of the free world...
- 25 November 2015
The Muslim Council of Britain and terrorism
The Muslim Council of Britain's forceful condemnation of the Paris terror attacks is welcome. But anyone can condemn slaughter, and doing so does not make you "moderate". What is needed is a radical change in key Muslim narratives
- 20 November 2015
Airport security? Don't make me laugh
The simple truth is that airport security has never played a role in frustrating terrorist attack plans; all have been the result of good intelligence. The ridiculous checks on liquids et al are there because the real way to do security -- profiling -- isn't PC
- 17 November 2015
Britain's failed, politically correct counter-terror strategy
At the anti-terrorism Prevent Strategy's heart lay the cosy conceit that what had motivated the 7/7 bombers was a heretical understanding of Islam rather than a puritanical one. Combined with ongoing multi-culturalism it is hard to see how we're on the path to progress
- 10 July 2015
Palestinians march for terror or against?
The world cannot allow the Palestinian leadership to get away with the lie that they oppose terrorism when they constantly praise it when it is visited upon Jewish Israeli civilians
- 21 January 2015
Charlie Hebdo: it’s time for war against Islamofascism
My grandfather didn’t fight for freedom in the Second World War against Nazi fascism, only to have Islamofascism take over whilst he’s stuck in a nursing home. I will not stand by and watch as Jewish people are persecuted, intimidated and forced to flee their homes.
- 11 January 2015
Saudi columnist says number of Ariel Sharon's "victims" tiny compared with victims of Arab rulers and terrorists
To write this in the Saudi government daily is pretty remarkable and may surprise many readers that it was even allowed. His recognition of Israeli democracy is possibly more acute than in much Western media
- 23 January 2014
Has the threat from terrorism been exaggerated?
An American’s chance of becoming a victim of terrorism in the U.S, even with 9/11 in the calculation, is about 1 in 3.5 million per year, says John Mueller, of Ohio State University in an argument many will find highly controversial
- 8 January 2014
Guardian worldview at root of national security row
The Guardian and company are ambivalent about the legitimacy of the free society in which they live, and that is why they are ambivalent about defending it
- 10 October 2013
Germany foils Islamist model aeroplane terror plan
Germans launch dawn raids involving around 90 officers in bid to prevent high-tech terror attacks
- 26 June 2013
Abu Qatada lawyer abuses UN position to influence US election
Special rapporteur at UN seeks to influence US presidential election
- 22 October 2012
Jewish community in France face an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitic attacks
French police confirm Islamic group were planning targeted attacks against the Jewish community
- 10 October 2012
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