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Extremism

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Rizwaan Sabir: "Innocent until proven Muslim" »

Rizwaan Sabir

On 14 May 2008, Rizwaan Sabir was arrested and detained for seven days under the Terrorism Act. The reason: downloading an Al-Qaeda training manual — copies of which can be freely purchased from high street book stores for under £...

Wed 05 Oct 2011 by Olivia Pires | Read more »

Norway terrorist attacks: 'I remember his face just like it was yesterday' »

An informal memorial to the victims of the Norway terrorist attacks which claimed 77 lives

In an Edinburgh cafe, as police outside corral the opposing masses of Scottish Defence League protesters and Unite Against Fascism campaigners who have gathered on the eve of the tenth anniversary of 9/11, John tells me about a cold July day on a Norwe...

Mon 26 Sep 2011 by Olivia Pires | Read more »

Universities urged to tackle extremism »

Extremist voices on university campuses must be engaged with and not margalized, a report from Universities UK (UUK) has urged. UUK, a university lobby group that represents university principals, claims that students need to be exposed to extremist v...

Wed 09 Mar 2011 by Jenny Kassner | Read more »

A debate to be had face-to-face »

Burka ban.

The niqab issue seems to have become a defining one, symbolic of Europe’s growing apprehension about the new ‘other’, namely Muslims. It is part of the new Muslim identity that some Muslim women in Europe are asserting in opposition t...

Wed 03 Feb 2010 by Gaffar Hussain | Read more »

British students being recruited to jihadist Facebook groups »

Facebook

Radical British Jihadist groups are actively operating and recruiting students on the social networking site Facebook and other forums, an investigation by The Journal can reveal. A private Facebook group called ‘Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama'ah&rsquo...

Fri 15 Feb 2008 | Read more »

New guidance to universities on tackling extremism »

New guidelines issued to universities have advised higher education authorities to consider sharing information on violent Islamist speakers and ban them from addressing students.The advice came in an updated government document aimed at helping univer...

Fri 15 Feb 2008 by Helen Walker | Read more »

Facebook: the darker side of social networking »

Hollywood has spent the best part of a decade convincing us that the main danger posed by the internet comes from bank-robbing computer hackers. The tabloid press believes that paedophiles pose an exponentially greater threat than they did fifteen year...

Thu 14 Feb 2008 | Read more »

Enough bating »

There can be little doubt that the conservative think tank, Policy Exchange timed the release of its report, The Hijacking of British Islam with exacting precision. With those perennial bad boys of international politics, the Saudis in town, tea cups w...

Mon 05 Nov 2007 by Chris Williams | Read more »

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