The Guardian: Borderless terrorism can only be tackled by borderless intelligence by Guy Verhofstadt …our security services need to work together much more closely. Following the attacks in Paris, it’s…
Gordon Adams, in France Has Been No Friend to Muslims manages to make sound the 732 battle of Poitiers as only the first of many acts of aggression against Islam:…
A Muslim philosopher on the monster within Islam. English version. Time to start actually thinking, not just reacting. Trouble is that there are not many more voices like that. The…
FIGAROVOX/GRAND ENTRETIEN : Dans son essai La pensée égarée, Alexandra Laignel-Lavastine explore plus d’une décennie de capitulation des « élites » face à la montée de l’islamisme radical. Après l’attentat…
Irrationality has its price. Irrational rejection and hatred of foreigners on one hand, unconditional and irrational love of strangers on the other. Instead of sitting down and discussing who deserves…
The paper examines the genesis of Al Qaida and, subsequently, ISIL in a rational way. However, missing from the conclusion is the simple fact that, were it not for the…
Il Califfato ha il suo “esercito”, con gerarchie carriere, stipendi e un consiglio militare. L’antiterrorismo europeo ha ricostruito Source: Droga, 100 dollari al giorno e il bollino nero sulla licenza,…
In The Atlantic Graeme Wood provides an extensive (and long: 29 pages) analysis of ISIS: http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/02/what-isis-really-wants/384980/ – best analysis I’ve seen so far on the subject.
Privacy advocates never cease invoking Armageddon, every time anybody tries to fight terrorism by improving surveillance and intelligence. There is also a fundamental right that is often overlooked by our…
Extreme religious practices tend to attract comments, perhaps sometimes unpleasant – but so do all sorts of behaviours and attires to which society is not used at the moment. It…