Dopo la fine della Guerra Fredda nuove insidie hanno occupato lo spazio lasciato libero dallo ‘spettro comunista’. L’Occidente e’ di nuovo in pericolo. Nel corso degli ultimi anni e’ stato aggredito ripetutamente dalle forze estreme provenienti dal microcosmo islamico. Esso, pero’, e’ reso piu’ fragile anche dall’indebolimento costante della sua identita’. Le sfide alle quali…
In August a case of so-called honour killing comes up for retrial in Germany’s highest court. Two years ago in Berlin, the murder of a young Kurdish woman at the hands of her three brothers sparked a nation-wide debate on the limits of multicultural tolerance and the failures of integration policy in Germany. The 23…
The widow of the leader of the 2005 London subway bombings said she was ashamed of her husband, and could understand if some people never forgave him. Hasina Patel, the wife of Mohammed Sidique Khan, told Sky News television in an interview released Friday that she still did not know why her husband blew himself…
Gordon Brown yesterday announced a four-fold increase in funding for a range of measures to help Muslim groups tackle violent extremism in their communities. Over the next three years, the government will set aside _70m to support local authorities and community groups to improve how they deal with the threat of terrorism in their midst,…
By Dominic Casciani Five young British Muslim men have been jailed for downloaded and sharing masses of extremist material. During their trial they argued that they were not terrorists but intellectually curious. But what evidence convinced the jury they had gone too far? When Mohammed Irfan Raja quietly walked out of his family home in…
