Militant Islamist group Boko Haram has been suspected of killing 27 people in attacks on two separate villages in northeast Nigeria, within close proximity to where almost 300 schoolgirls were abducted by Boko Haram last month. Police reported that ten
It is a cliche to publicly remember “where you were when” some major event took place, but I hope you’ll indulge me, because “where I was when” Drummer Lee Rigby was getting murdered on a London street could not have
One of UKIP’s most senior European candidates has refused to apologise after she was pictured making an offensive hand gesture at protesters. Janice Atkinson made the ‘one-fingered salute’ after members of the People’s Assembly of Ashford had screamed abuse at
Egyptian general and presidential frontrunner Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the man largely responsible for dethroning the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, asked the United States for help in fighting his country’s battle against Islamist extremism. “We are fighting a war against terrorism,”
While Indians wait for the official results of their just-completed 2014 national election to be announced Friday, all eyes and expectations now fall upon the man everyone is certain will be the next Prime Minister of the world’s largest democracy:
Government censorship is not helping to combat Islamist extremism, according to a new report. The counter-extremist Quilliam Foundation instead calls on legislators to create a new “social media outlet” that debunks extremist propaganda and clarifies government policies. The report says
During Hillary Clinton’s tenure, the State Department failed to designate Boko Haram a terrorist organization, in spite of the fact that Boko Haram had become second only to the Taliban as the deadliest terrorist organization. Clinton will rightly have to
ST IVES, CAMBRIDGESHIRE, UK — An over-capacity crowd of around 650 people met UKIP leader Nigel Farage for the final town hall-style meeting of his pre-European Election tour of the United Kingdom. With UKIP swag plastered all over the Burgess
“What was causing the protests in Cairo that the CIA mentions? The video.” That’s how Slate’s John Dickerson pushes back against the idea that the new White House emails on (sorry, Jay Carney) Benghazi, obtained via a FOIA request by
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), an organization founded in 1909 to fight racists, now provides indulgences to them. Disgraced Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s lifetime achievement award, revoked by the Los Angeles branch of the NAACP
In the interest of time (I’m nearly a half century old and have fewer years ahead than I’ve already swallowed up), I do my best to avoid black holes: what I call “time-suck” stories that are so murky and slippery
A parliamentary committee has called for Britain to cut foreign aid payments to Pakistan unless there is “clear evidence” it is helping reduce Islamist extremism in the country. The Commons International Development Committee said that there was little evidence massive
British universities are still letting Islamist hate preachers speak on campus facilities despite widespread condemnation. The Peter Tatchell Foundation reports that last month, students at the University of Westminster initially invited hard line speaker Murtaza Khan to speak before replacing
Britain’s Work and Pensions Minister and former leader of the Conservative Party Iain Duncan Smith has said that the Conservative Party could “confound the polls” on May 22nd, and said that Conservative voters are becoming increasingly wary given reports that
On Sunday’s Meet the Press, in asking former British Prime Minster Tony Blair about the war against al Qaeda, David Gregory argues that it was the US and UK response to 9/11 and the 7/7 London attacks that made Islamic extremism
On Sunday’s Meet the Press, in asking former British Prime Minster Tony Blair about the war against al Qaeda, David Gregory argues that it was the US and UK response to 9/11 and the 7/7 London attacks that made Islamic extremism
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” host David Gregory grilled former British Prime Minister Tony Blair for his and former President George W. Bush’s role in the current state of radical Islam… Partial transcript as follows: GREGORY: Isn’t the legacy
The BBC’s Newsnight programme last night presented a piece of investigative journalism into Park View school in Birmingham, one of the schools listed by Birmingham City Council as being under investigation over allegations of a hard line Islamist takeover. The
Tony Blair yesterday delivered one of his most important speeches since ceasing to be British Prime Minister. Speaking on the Middle East and North Africa, he said the greatest threat of our time is Islamic extremism, and called on world
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has called for Western nations to work with Vladimir Putin in the fight against radical Islam. In a keynote speech to Bloomberg, Mr Blair said that “whatever our differences”, we must work together to
The head of Britain’s Charity Commission has warned the organisation’s “most deadly” problem is Islamist extremists setting up charities as cover for their activities. In an interview with the Sunday Times, William Shawcross said: “The problem of Islamist extremism and
This week, the New York City Police Department shocked many by announcing an end to its Muslim monitoring program, the Zone Assessment Unit. But at a time in which Islamic extremism appears to be an increasingly present risk, the NYPD
This week, the New York City Police Department shocked many by announcing an end to its Muslim monitoring program, the Zone Assessment Unit. But at a time in which Islamic extremism appears to be an increasingly present risk, the NYPD
In a heated exchange last week, Ibrahim Hooper – national spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) – issued a put up or shut up kind of challenge to his organization’s critics. Hooper was pressed by Fox News host Megyn Kelly
One year ago today, we were met with yet another solemn reminder: the ideologies that promote, recruit, and train militant Islamist jihadists are alive, well, and growing. When Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnev detonated the two bombs at last year’s Boston
