France’s hollow Islamist reckoning
Emmanuel Carrère found a story of liberal renewal in the country’s 2015 terrorism attacks. But is it true?
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Terrorism is the systematic use of violence to create a climate of fear in a population with the aim of disturbing the status quo, overthrowing authorities or attacking a particular group for ideological reasons. Terror has also been used by governments against their people to suppress dissent, for example in Nazi Germany.
The atrocity exhibition
Over a single night in 2015, terrorists killed 130 people in Paris. In Emmanuel Carrère’s account of the ensuing trial,…
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The horrors of Storyville’s Surviving October 7th: We Will Dance Again
Yariv Mozer’s 90-minute BBC documentary is an astonishing thing, almost beyond description. It will destroy you.
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The rise and fall of Britain’s infamous preacher of hate
Anjem Choudary personified an era of Islamic extremism.
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Robin Simcox: “Extremism is not always a black-and-white issue”
The head of the Commission for Countering Extremism on why our categories for the threats we face are “not fit…
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Shaking hands with Islamic State
When James Foley was murdered in Syria in 2014, his mother’s search for redemption began.
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The deadly return of Islamic State
The attack at Moscow’s Crocus City concert hall shows that we ignore the jihadi group at our peril.
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The lessons of Osama bin Laden’s viral “Letter to America”
TikTok and other social media platforms allow distorted narratives to proliferate.
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The spectre of jihadi terror
Within militant Islamic factions, sectarian rivalries count for less than the desire for destruction.
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The Hamas attack was driven by a brutal ideology
The atrocities committed against Israeli civilians have roots in the same fanaticism activists face in Iran.
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The rise of the Unabomber right
How American conservatives fell in love with Ted Kaczynski.
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The IRA’s blank assassin
The Brighton bomb killed five people but failed to hit its target, Margaret Thatcher.
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Britain needs a new approach to extremist violence
One year on from the Plymouth shooting, policy is still struggling to keep up with new types of terrorist threat.
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Death of al-Qaeda leader in Kabul puts the Taliban on notice
The killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri exposes tensions among Afghanistan’s rulers.
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Prevent is Islamophobic by design, not accident
As a teacher, I see how Muslimness itself is deemed a risk factor for radicalisation.
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Texas synagogue attack shows corrosive power of anti-Semitism
Yes, there really are people who think the Jews control everything. That belief degrades all of society.
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UK raises terror threat level to “severe”. What does this mean?
A further terrorist attack is now regarded as “highly likely” by the independent Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre.
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America, 20 years after 9/11
Jeremy Cliffe and Sarah Manavis explore the long shadow of the 11 September attacks.
What do we remember when we remember 9/11?
Our remembrance of 9/11 is about the greatness of America; in the process, it fails Americans.
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A new docuseries captures 9/11 minute by minute
9/11: One Day in America forces the viewer to experience the attacks in painful detail.
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