• Security and Counterterrorism

    Yvette Cooper welcomes Abu Qatada’s pledge to leave UK

    by  • May 14, 2013 • Issues in Politics, Public Opinion and Islam in the Media, Security and Counterterrorism, United Kingdom

    Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper welcomes the news Abu Qatada could return to Jordan, saying: “We all agree he should stand fair trial there so justice can be done.” The Radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada will return to Jordan voluntarily when the Jordanian parliament ratifies a deal with Britain that ensures he will receive...

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    The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Film Review

    by  • May 14, 2013 • Discrimination and Xenophobia, Issues in Politics, Security and Counterterrorism, United Kingdom

    Its message might be flabby, but Mira Nair’s adaptation of Mohsin Hamid’s novel is still a bold piece of global storytelling. Based on the 2007 novel by Mohsin Hamid, this is an ambitious, heartfelt tale of divided loyalties in a world where complacent belief in the triumph of globalised capital was shattered by the...

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    French ministers refuse to attend conference with Islamic scholar who teaches at Oxford University

    by  • May 14, 2013 • Discrimination and Xenophobia, Education and Schooling, Issues in Politics, Public Opinion and Islam in the Media, Security and Counterterrorism, United Kingdom

    Tariq Ramadan is an Islamic scholar who teaches at Oxford University and a former member of a working group on extremism set up by Tony Blair. Time magazine once described him as the “leading thinker” among Europe’s second and third-generation Muslim immigrants. Yet two French ministers have suddenly announced that they will not attend...

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