In early 2003 Egmont-Royal Institute for International Relations organised a major international conference in Brussels on international terrorism, under the heading ‘Root Causes of International Terrorism’. At that moment the very notion that there existed underlying forces that shaped the context and causes that led to 9/11 looked self-evident to academics, but was still very…
The training of Muslims by the Catholic Institute of Paris began on January 29th, in a course on rhetoric. Twenty-three people registered for the course, mainly from the Mosque of Paris, a partner in this unique initiative. Students include those of Algerian, Moroccan, and Tunisian descent, and also several women who are interested in hospital…
An Islamist terror cell dismantled in January in Barcelona has chosen the city’s subway system as a target for a series of suicide bombings in order to maximize the carnage and loss of life, according to the testimony from a protected witness. If we attack the metro (subway), the emergency services cannot get there one…
A far-right party in the Austrian state of Carinthia, led by the notorious right-wing politician Jorg Haider, is trying to ban the construction of mosques and minarets. They’ve presented a draft law designed to prohibit “unusual” buildings that don’t fit in with traditional architecture. In the latest anti-Islam initiative by right-wing politicians in Austria, the…
