March 21, 2014 When Dominique Bons’ timid son stopped smoking overnight and started praying frequently at his home in the southern French city of Toulouse, she alerted the authorities. They did nothing because Nicolas was not suspected of any crime. One day last year he disappeared. Then Bons was sent a text message saying…
November 18, 2013 The Army is concerned about the outbreaks of “ideological, religious or criminal” radicalism in its ranks and has implemented a monitoring system to neutralize the suspects. “The conduct of these individuals is a weakness for the institution and may pose a threat to security,” declared a member of the Army office….
June 14, 2013 No one comes to mind more quickly in the cause of Islam: for both institutional and foreign students in Brescia than the case of Anas El Abboubi (a recently discovered extremist living outside of Milan) Yet, the word “Islam,” today in Brescia’s city of Vobarno, as well as in Niardo…
Liberation 29.05.2013 A 22 year old white French convert to Islam was arrested for the recent attack against a French soldier at La Defense. Alexander D. Is suspected of having sliced the throat of a 25-year-old French soldier on parole in the suburban Parisian business district of La Défense. The soldier survived the attack and…
There’s a double meaning to the title of “The Reluctant Fundamentalist,” filmmaker Mira Nair’s great, gripping and complex drama based on the 2007 novel by Mohsin Hamid about the roots of extremism. On a superficial level, “fundamentalist” refers to religious identity, one unfortunately most often associated with Islamic terrorism these days. And the story — about an…
