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14 January 2025
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The U.K. faces a "significant" knowledge gap on Islamist extremism as research disproportionately concentrates on far-Right groups, according to a new report by the Commission for Countering Extremism.
Former extremism tsar Dame Sara Khan warns that official plans to tackle extremism in the U.K. are being ignored, despite rising radicalisation.
Mainstream media persist in stating the Paris knife attacker targeted a "German" over Israel when his own video never mentions Israel but talks about ISIS in East Asia. Why are they so keen to blame Israel and hide jihad?
Robert Kogon profiles the assailant involved in the recent terrorist attack in Paris, highlighting his alarming associations with at least three other individuals involved in notorious French terror incidents.
The Government's new Terrorism Bill imposes over-the-top requirements on churches, village halls, cricket clubs and other local venues to carry out risk assessments and force volunteers to undergo anti-terrorism training.
The terror attack which killed teacher Dominique Bernard last Friday occurred nearly three years after the very similar attack on Samuel Paty. But less well known is that a third such attack occurred last year.
Mohammed Mogouchkov, who killed one person in a knife attack at a school in France on Friday, was apparently looking for a history teacher. Had the teacher expressed views on the Middle East he didn't agree with?
An NHS medic, Dr Mennah Elwan, mocked Israeli festival-goers for fleeing Hamas gunmen, claiming on X that "there are no civilians in Israel" and calling for the UK to forcibly remove the whole Israeli population.
Relations between Canada and India are in a tailspin after Trudeau alleged India was behind the June 18th killing of an alleged Sikh terrorist. But what's the truth of the matter, asks Ramesh Thakur.
The Danish Government has proposed a ban on setting the Quran alight in public citing national security concerns, prompting fears of a return of blasphemy laws to Europe to appease violent Muslims.
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