The mutation of jihad
Spectacular global terror is losing ground to a new form of Islamist governance.
ByTerrorism
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.
7/7 changed life for British Muslims forever
It was the 2005 bombings, not 9/11, that put them at the centre of terror discourse.
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How terror came home on 7/7
In Three Weeks in July, Adam Wishart and James Nally show how the Islamist bomb attacks of July 2005 changed…
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India must step back from the brink
International allies are pressuring both India and Pakistan to show restraint.
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In the face of Hamas’s terrorism, choosing life is essential
It was unbearable when my brother’s murderer was released from prison in the ceasefire deal. But 59 hostages remain in…
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Sharone Lifschitz: “On 7 October, my father saw his life’s work going up in flames”
The film-maker on her father Oded Lifschitz and the plight of the 7 October hostages.
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The Munich car attack will have a powerful political echo
Could the tragedy boost the far right in the upcoming election?
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Southport and the changing face of terror
Keir Starmer is correct: the Prevent programme failed to comprehend Axel Rudakubana’s obsession with violence.
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Luigi Mangione’s twisted radicalism
Why has the internet rallied around a mysterious suspected assassin?
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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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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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