radicalisation

2 Oct

The day an innocent man walked free…again

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This is a story which will not make the front-page headlines of the British press and will not be aired on the mainstream news channels, writes Dilly Hussain. Yesterday, an innocent man was freed for the second time in his life after being detained on terrorism charges. Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg was arrested […]

30 Sep

UK air strikes in Iraq will have a blowback at home

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UK air strikes against ISIS in Iraq will have repercussions at home, writes Dilly Hussain. On Friday 26 September, the UK government voted for military air strikes against ISIS in Iraq. MPs voted by 524 to 43, with 69 MPs not voting. A total of twenty-three Labour MPs, six Tories and one Lib Dem voted […]

12 Jun

10 reasons why Michael Gove may be behind the Trojan Horse letter

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Dilly Hussain says that the Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove, is either the author or the “brains behind” the Trojan Horse letter which claimed that Muslim extremists were plotting to takeover schools in Birmingham. All the facts that I am about to present are well-known and well-documented. The factors stated below may not […]

22 May

Should Muslims apologise for Woolwich?

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Within hours of the Woolwich attack, Muslim organizations and personalities have come out condemning today’s incident. But by doing so are they reinforcing the link between Islam and terrorism in people’s minds, Dilly Hussain writes. With so little information about what happened, who the perpertrators actually were and why members of the public so calmly […]