Radicalization

Why is the UAE fearful of radicalization on UK campuses? - explainer

Recent years have indicated that the Muslim Brotherhood's ideology is becoming increasingly more influential in the UK, with several student groups maintaining links with the UAE-proscribed group.

DEMONSTRATORS FROM the ‘Palestine Coalition’ hold a large Palestinian flag earlier this month in London, after the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas in Gaza went into effect.
People walk past tents at The University of Manchester campus, as students occupy parts of British university campuses to protest in support of Palestinians in Gaza, May 7, 2024.

UAE cuts state funding for citizens studying at UK universities due to fears of radicalization

Okotch Mondoh, Robert Weinger, Sarah Boulos, Rory Kaye, and Stephanie Bahn Poteet, with a red, white and blue shofar, at the Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast, Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, Florida, January 14, 2025.

Iran's Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi to address Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast's Mar-a-Lago event

Relations between Turkey and Israel (illustrative)

The eighth, most dangerous front: How Turkey went from ally to strategic threat - opinion


TERRA INCOGNITA: Where antisemitism and racism intersect

In January 2005 a photo of Obama with Farrakhan emerged. Taken by Askia Muhammed at a gathering of the Congressional Black Caucus, the photo was buried for 13 years.

NATION OF Islam leader Louis Farrakhan speaks on the steps of the US Capitol at a rally in 2015.

EU piles pressure on internet giants to remove extremist content

European governments have said that extremist content on the web has influenced lone-wolf attackers who have killed people in several European cities after being radicalized.

A man is silhouetted against a video screen with a Twitter and a Facebook logo

French PM vows to combat 'slow-burn' threat of radical Islam

"Islamist radicalization is a threat to our society, and not just when it leads to violence. It's a challenge every time the law of the state is respected only if compatible with religious tenets."

French Prime Minister Philippe talks at the Munich Security Conference in Munich.

Germany expects return of over 100 children of ISIS fighters

Nearly a thousand people are believed to have left Germany to join up with the Islamist militants.

German security forces walk with a Muslim family outside a mosque in Berlin

Man accused of plotting attack for Islamic State at San Francisco pier

The man is suspected of planning to carry out an attack before Christmas.

Pier 39, looking north from near the entry point. San Francisco, California, USA.

Hamas’s failure

It is an important lesson for would-be Islamists everywhere that a reactionary version of Islam is not the answer to the pressing socioeconomic problems facing Gaza.

Shadi Abu Obeid (L), a member of the Palestinian Fatah movement, is greeted by a relative in Gaza City after his release from a Hamas prison on October 1, 2017.

'LGBT behavior' to be barred from Indonesian TV

Lawmakers in Indonesia proposed a law that would ban all LGTB television characters from the screen.

‘Transparent’ TV series

FBI investigating 1,000 white nationalist and domestic terror cases

During his first congressional testimony, FBI director Christopher A. Wray confirms his bureau is working on a thousand domestic terrorism cases, from Islamic jihadists to home-grown radicals.

FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies before a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing on "Threats to the homeland" on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 27, 2017.

Arab-Israeli ISIS fighter killed in Syria

Israeli-Arab former resident of Shefa-Ámr died in Syria last weekend while fighting for Isis.

Rami Hugirat

Shame on the IDC

We need to resist legitimizing Trumpesque ideas – and inviting Sebastian Gorka to be a keynote speaker isn't the way.

US President Donald Trump hosts a recent meeting at the White House. His administration, the author writes, has enabled intolerance and fake-news era extremists.