Posted on March 15, 2015. Tags: 9/11, Al Qaeda, Charlie Hebdo, Conspiracy Theories, Danish Cartoons, European Union, Iraq, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Islamophobia, Jordan, King Abdullah, Middle East, Obama, Qur'an, Religion, Syria
This week, King Abdullah of Jordan appealed to European parliamentarians to help root out both terrorism and ‘Islamophobia’. Setting aside this interesting conflation, the wholesale failure of Arab and majority Muslim countries to embody either mutual respect or inclusivity towards many of their ethno-religious minorities bespeaks of an imbalance in critical attention to how those […]
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Posted in Europe, Iraq, Islam, Middle East, Political Security, Religion, Security Issues, Syria, Terrorism, World
Posted on January 24, 2015. Tags: Al Qaeda, alienation, Bowen, British Muslims, Charlie Hebdo, deprivation, France, French Muslims, Giles Kepel, identity, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, jihadi, Jivraj, multiculturalism, Racism, Religion, Salafism, Salafist Islam, Theo Van Gogh, United Kingdom
The tragedy of Charlie Hebdo has provoked an immense response from Muslims and non-Muslims all over the world. Almost all who have written about this issue have condemned the killings in Paris, equating them to other similar terrorist threats and attacks such as the Rushdie Affair and the 7/7 bombings in Britain, the 9/11 attacks, and […]
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Posted in Europe, Islam, Religion, Security Issues, Terrorism, World