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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEU and the Arab world: 'cooperation' to fight terror is an excuseThe EU is following a bizarre logic, where support is given to autocratic regimes who benefit from the rise of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Free speech in the French RepublicSince the touchstone of a free speech regime is in how well it protects speech that most find revolting, its...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Redefining laïcité: French integration and the radical rightPerhaps it is not the Muslim communities of France that must change, so much as the notion of laïcité.
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Published in: 50.50To take a stand is more important than to take a distanceInstead of distancing ourselves from terrorist crimes, as progressive Muslims we should confront the ultra...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Charlie Hebdo: stop pointing fingers and drop the reductive approachIt is time everyone stopped intentionally misinforming audiences with uninformed rudimentary analyses.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Charlie Hebdo and the right to offendThe right to offend, which the French secular republic with its long tradition of anti-clericalist satire holds...
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Published in: HomeJe Suis Hypocrite?Surely #JeSuisCharlie was more than just a convenient slogan for the day?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Charlie Hebdo – one week laterIt has been exhausting having to confront the visceral divisions among us about the nature of what happened, the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Letter from ParisMy friends and I, either in the past or more recently, all had some kind of personal and/or activist link with...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaCharlie Hebdo and western denialThe recent attacks in Paris were the latest round in a conflict of violence, not of “values”. The primary...
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Published in: Home‘Prevent’ in education within HampshirePrevent, a counter-terrorism programme, is a success in Portsmouth, where delivery took the significance of identity...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Charlie Hebdo: justice for allI am for leaving believers in peace. Believers are individuals like any other, neither superior, nor inferior to...
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Published in: HomeCharlie Hebdo and the blasphemy of censorship
The massacre in Paris spreads fear and reinforces the retreat from free expression in Europe. It also sharpens an...
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Published in: HomeWhy Paris will happen again if we rely on empathy and outrageDespite the strong support for ‘free speech ‘from politicians in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo murders not a single...
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Published in: HomeWhere is the outrage?Europe’s hypocrisy and latent racism was also displayed after the Paris attacks.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?#QuiSommesNous? A Socratic dialogue on “L’Affaire Charlie Hebdo”Freedoms are not unlimited but who, when and how can we limit them? Two colleagues agree to disagree. Content...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?I am not CharlieThe Danish cartoons were assembled to humiliate a vulnerable minority. In subsequent debates, the idea of freedom of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The road to hell is paved with rapid reactions
In the wake of a vicious crime, caution and restraint are a virtue.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Paris demo: I was thereSome say they have understood this call: only the future will tell. But the future is now.
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Published in: HomeDemocracy and terrorism: when definitions stifle free speechConcepts like democracy, the constitution, and freedom of speech are slogans that are only meaningful in so far as...
