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To prevent people from climbing the staircase to terrorism, educating people about the values of tolerance should start early.
While Islamophobic acts in Paris mainly take place in public institutions, in London they’re mainly on the street or on public transport.
Memorials to the terror attack have become visual and transient – a battleground to contest parts of French identity.
Contemporary terrorism is rooted in a form of political violence dating from the French Revolution. It is rooted in social facts and is now evolving on a global scale.
Sayfullo Saipov, the suspect in the Manhattan bike path attack, wasn’t a devout Muslim. He cursed and came late to prayers. A terrorism expert explains why such a man may want to be a martyr.
France has been living under a a state of emergency for nearly two years. The president now wants to make some of its most controversial elements permanent law.
Despite the recent terrorist attacks in Spain, the European Union has dramatically improved its counterterrorism efforts. Here’s how.
With terrorists striking again in Spain and in Finland, one cannot help but ask – again – why people want to follow the Islamic State. Some new theories are emerging.
The way we talk about attacks is actually helping the extremists’ monstrous cause.
Does the media coverage of the Manchester terrorist attack suggest we are becoming inured to them?
Western media continues to sell Muslims as perpetrators of savagery, deprivation and torture. But a new exhibit by French-Algerian artist Kader Attia challenges us to see beyond these depictions.
Reforming France’s intelligence and policing practices will be a big political battle.
France’s two presidential candidates diverge markedly on many issues, but nothing is as divisive as France’s relationship with the EU.
Last night’s terrorist attack in Manchester reveals the challenges facing European intelligence and security services in preventing people who use everyday things like cars to cause mayhem.
Just when the Western world had absorbed the shock of a truck attack in Berlin in December that claimed 12 lives, it is reminded again of the dangers of “lone-wolf” attacks inspired by Islamic State (IS…
Muslims from the Salafist tradition can often be seen as ‘radical.’ There is not much understanding of Salafism, its history and its diversity. Here’s what it means to be a Salafist.
Governments’ continual use of security forces to ‘keep order’ in low-income and minority neighborhoods masks their inability find solutions other than force.
Targeted killing – the killing of specific individuals usually performed by drones – is a globally expanding practice.
Islamic writers are having the same conversations today as they were in the early 20th century.
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