Just as with other religions, we must be allowed to offend Islam
As long as radical Islam remains immune from criticism a moderate version will struggle to emerge.
As long as radical Islam remains immune from criticism a moderate version will struggle to emerge.
Those who use violence to silence those with who they disagree should never be appeased by the democratically-minded.
A Pakistani cleric has found himself a victim of the very laws that he promotes.
Many communities have already become active in addressing Ofsted’s concerns about far right and Islamist extremism.
Now is an appropriate juncture to push back against fatalism and despair and protect our achievements for the future.
The number of Pakistanis being sentenced or killed for blaspheming against the accepted strain of Sunni Islam is on the rise.
British nationals that join jihadist groups abroad are still British nationals and should be processed by our criminal justice system like other criminals.
Jihadism has gone from fringe cult to a mass movement because non-violent extremists have too often gone unchallenged.
Parts of the liberal left should be honest with the British people about their alliance with CAGE and Moazzam Begg. Now more than ever we must turn to Meredith Tax’s book ‘Double Bind: The Muslim Right, the Anglo-American Left, and Universal Human Rights’ for reference and moral clarity.
The document offers a chilling mixture of the mundane and the depraved.