Tag: right-wing extremism
Sweden: Threats of burning the Quran spark anger internationally
After a far-right party leader threatened to tour the country burning copies of the Quran, riots spread through different Swedish cities for...
Anti-Islamic extremist Martin Sellner, linked to Christchurch shooter, permanently banned from...
Martin Sellner, an anti-Islamic extremist, has been permanently excluded from entering the UK. Sellner is the Austrian leader of Generation Identity, an organisation which...
Amid concern about Anjem Choudary’s release from prison, Ed Husain writes...
Writing in The Telegraph, Ed Husain says that the case of Anjem Choudary, the Islamist hate preacher who is due to be released from jail next month, demonstrates that the West “still has no answer to the Islamist ideal of the Caliphate”. He goes onto suggest that the discourse of the Labour leadership is fuelling Islamist extremism.
Sentencing of Darren Osborne sparks discussion about right-wing extremism in the...
Osborne, who killed a worshipper outside the Finsbury Park Mosque in 2017 in an act of terrorism motivated by Islamophobia, was reportedly radicalised by online content from far-right movements. The British mainstream media has been criticised for popularising this content through engaging with it in their coverage.
