Islamism
The futility of Martyn’s Law
There have been few acts of terrorist violence on British soil as grotesque as the Manchester Arena bombing in May…
Why French students want English uniforms
Béziers, France The École Mairan in Béziers in southern France is a happy neighbourhood elementary school housed in a superb…
Salman Rushdie was never safe
The stabbing of Salman Rushdie sends a renewed message to the world: take Islamism – the transformation of the Islamic…
Prevent and the problem of ‘political correctness’
Britain is reviewing its cornerstone anti-terror programme. As the name implies, Prevent is a strategy designed to stop radicalisation before…
Is Israel facing a new Intifada?
Dizengoff Street is one of the busiest thoroughfares in Tel Aviv, a strip of bars, restaurants and Bauhaus architecture that…
Will Macron surrender to the mob?
It has been a torrid few days in France. In the early hours of Saturday morning, a former Argentine rugby…
Britain’s fatal unwillingness to confront Islamic extremism
Britain’s fatal unwillingness to confront Islamic extremism
The Bataclan trial is forcing France to confront some difficult questions
It’s a stroke of good fortune for France that Salah Abdeslam is a coward. Had he not been he would…
The West's Islamist capitulation
On Monday, Tony Blair addressed a military think tank in London and stated that the West should continue to intervene…
China is the latest victim of Pakistan's Islamist problem
Nine Chinese engineers were killed in an explosion near Pakistan’s Dasu hydroelectric dam last Wednesday. The government initially said that their…
Hamas doesn't want a Palestinian state
Do Hamas’s supporters in the West know what this organisation really stands for? The reality is that Hamas is no…
Germany's growing extremism problem
On 2 June 2019, a German politician was found lying in a pool of blood outside his home in Hesse.…
Britain must investigate its Islamist ‘dawa’ networks
Britain must investigate its Islamist ‘dawa’ networks
What the demise of Quilliam teaches us about Britain and Islam
There was much rejoicing among Britain’s Islamists last week when the thinktank and campaigning organisation Quilliam announced that it was…
Imran Khan’s cowardly response to Pakistan's rape crisis
Pakistan’s prime minister Imran Khan has once again blamed women for an appalling rise in rape cases. Khan used a televised question…
The twisted logic of Shamima Begum's defenders
Shamima Begum is back in the news. Firstly because she’s had a makeover. She can be seen on the front…
When will Pakistan take a stand against terror?
Last week, Pakistan’s Supreme Court ordered the release of UK born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh who was accused of kidnapping…
Are we witnessing the birth of an African Islamic State?
On Monday, 13 soldiers were killedby the Islamic State in northeastern Nigeria. A week ago, just after midnight on Friday…
Britain is still failing to confront Islamism
How time flies. In March 2014, quite out of the blue, I was commissioned by then prime minister David Cameron…
French republicanism confounds American progressives
Can an entire country sue for libel? If so, France would have a strong suit against swathes of the American…
Macron is preparing for intellectual battle against Islamism
Muslim thinkers offer a remedy to fundamentalism
Macron alone: where are France’s allies in the fight against Islamism?
Where is the support for his fight against Islamism?
The unbearable niceness of Canadians is driving us to destruction
While Americans spent last week panicking about the state of their democracy, north of the border we were having a…
Churches are more Covid-secure than trains or takeaways
Monday night’s murderous gunman in Vienna is officially described as ‘Islamist’. Brahim Aioussaoi, the man accused of murdering worshippers in…
France vs Islamism: how does Macron hope to prosecute his war?
How does Macron hope to prosecute his war?
