Showing posts with label terrorism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label terrorism. Show all posts
Tuesday, 29 January 2019

Is terrorism more driven by identity than extremist ideology?

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How do you define, in the context of free speech, extremism? Is extremism a belief, opinion or world view beyond arbitrarily defined societa...
Thursday, 21 September 2017

Quote of the day: Vietnam

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This is spot on: The Vietnam War was the greatest U.S. military catastrophe of the 20th century. A conflict begun under false pretenses...
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Sunday, 4 June 2017

"Enough is enough" - responding to Islamism

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Quite understandably there has been a fairly frantic response to the terrible and terrifying events last night on London Bridge and in the B...
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Tuesday, 17 May 2016

Absolutely right - we shouldn't ever forget this...

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**** ... Corbyn was a member of the board of Labour Briefing, a fringe magazine for diehard leftists that unequivocally supported the IRA’s...
Tuesday, 22 March 2016

No we're not at war

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Like many people, I vividly remember the Birmingham pub bombings. And, since I was only 13 and we didn't own a TV, it took quite somethi...
Sunday, 20 March 2016

Endless war...

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**** As Joe Haldeman wrote : “The 1143-year-long war had begun on false pretenses and only because the two races were unable to commun...
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Sunday, 15 November 2015

Islamist terror is about political power not faith - which is why we must help Muslims defeat it

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Eduard Steinbrück, Die Magdeburger Jungfrauen Then was there naught but beating and burning, plundering, torture, rape and murder. Mo...
Tuesday, 25 November 2014

Quote of the day: Advice on anti-terrorism from James Thurber

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**** The moral from The Very Proper Gander : Anybody who you or your wife thinks is going to overthrow the government by violence must ...
Friday, 11 July 2014

Freedom or security? Is this really the choice?

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**** It's OK folks, I'm not going to recycle that Ben Franklin quote but you'll all have noticed that the government, the poss...
Monday, 23 September 2013

Simon Jenkins proposes the stupidest response to terrorism ever...

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**** I'm not joking. Simon Jenkins - usually a fairly thoughtful journalist was clearly drugged or drunk when he wrote this : The s...
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Sunday, 23 June 2013

Taking sides in Syria - mad, bad and dangerous

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**** It seems to me an utter nonsense to seek to end a war by giving the side that appears to be losing more guns. Yet that is precisely -...
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Monday, 10 June 2013

Here be monsters...

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“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”  H. P. Lovecraft ...
Sunday, 11 September 2011

America!

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  "...sudden burst of sunshine seemed to illuminate the Statue of Liberty, so that he saw it in a new light, although he had sighted ...
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Saturday, 26 February 2011

A dark day for Ireland - electing a terrorist and friend of murderers to its parliament

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**** Gerry Adams was a leading member of the IRA when the organisation received support and funding - probably arms, too - from Libya : ...
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Sunday, 24 January 2010

Muslim leader calls for ethnic profiling.

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*** You read that right - in today's Telegraph it is reported the Iqbal Wahhab a "leading Muslim businessman" and Government a...
Saturday, 23 January 2010

This isn't security it's ritual magic

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**** Yesterday the Government – in the form of Home Secretary Alan Johnson – raised the security level to “severe” which apparently means th...
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