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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Charlie Hebdo attack: a first look at the background and contextOsama bin Laden and Ayman Al-Zawahiri, the leaders of Al-Qaeda, equated ‘acts of slander’ to the bombing of villages...
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Published in: 50.50Charlie Hebdo: "There is no way they will make us put down our pens."Pen against Kalashnikov: courage against atrocity. People of Muslim heritage call for combatting Islamist ideology...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?No, we are NOT all Charlie (and that’s a problem)It is comforting and politically expedient to claim that “we” are attacked because “they” cannot deal with “our”...
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Published in: openSecurityCharlie Hebdo: how journalism needs to respond to this unconscionable attackThe killings at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo highlight the threat to media workers in a world where free...
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Published in: Home"Better numb than Islam"
The attitudes of most American citizens to violence against Muslims bodes ill for democracy in the United States.
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Published in: 50.50Progressive Muslims in a world of ISIS and Islamophobes
Ani Zonneveld, president of Muslims for Progressive Values, explains the struggle to organize progressive Muslim...
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Published in: openSecurityToxic images or imaging the otherIn the aftermath of the Toulouse killings of March 2012, the French state projected a set of 'toxic images' clearly...
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Published in: Home“Idiots trying to trap other idiots”
The choice is difficult: none of the alternatives easy to accept. But is it not the case that those who riot in the...
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Published in: openSecurityMarine Le Pen, the radical right and French Islamophobia - Part II
Nicolas Lebourg continues (see part one) to explore how the Toulouse events contributed to shaping Marine Le Pen’s...
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Published in: openSecurityThe Toulouse killings and the radical right - part IThere were some good reasons to suspect the French extreme right of theToulouse killings. In this first article,...
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Published in: HomeThe success of IslamophobiaToday, we see that the rules of western European racism are shifting. On the one hand, they are becoming less...
