Terrorism
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After 9/11 few films or novels took anything but a dark view of the US response, Kathryn Bigelow’s 'The Hurt Locker' and Clint Eastwood’s 'American Sniper' being two exceptions. The most common reactions, though, were equivocation, relativism, moral ambivalence and self-censorship, all of which are to be found in ever woke Richard Flanagan's 'The Unknown Terrorist'
October 26, 2021
15 mins
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The US was in Al-Qaeda’s sights long before September 11 and it is fair to suggest that Washington’s my-enemy’s-enemy-is-my-friend Cold War realpolitik played a part in bringing about the attacks. But if 9/11 was in any way a consequence of US foreign policy, the larger truth is that Osama bin Laden was the product of an Islamic revivalism that failed to revive Islam
September 11, 2021
16 mins
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Almost three months have passed since Brenton Tarrant entered the first of two Christchurch mosques and opened fire, leaving 51 dead. Inevitably and immediately he was branded a racist right-winger, as if that tag is sufficient to describe an admirer of totalitarian China bent on offering the blood of innocents to the greater glory of Gaia
June 8, 2019
20 mins
The latest
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Philippe Lançon survived, just, the Islamist massacre in the office of Charlie Hedbo and has now written of his hard road to a recovery of sorts. Today, with news of another Christmas market massacre, his story is a timely reminder that West remains under attack regardless of media and officialdom's reluctance to name and counter the enemy within
December 12, 2018
15 mins
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Why did Australian authorities allow Momena Shoma into the country after Turkey, and perhaps Tunisia and the United States as well, rejected her visa application? They did, alas, and the international student's host almost paid with his life when 'sudden jihadi syndrome' saw her plunge a knife into his throat
December 10, 2018
16 mins
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On Friday November 13, 2015, three teams of armed Salafi […]
December 1, 2015
7 mins
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Islamic State and its media units release over 90,000 social […]
December 1, 2015
14 mins
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Even more than most other first-world nations modern Europe suffers […]
December 1, 2015
9 mins
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Confusion and incoherence in the theory and practice of war—who […]
November 1, 2013
15 mins
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Have you noticed how the modern-day Left tends not to […]
July 1, 2013
17 mins