Another piece on the Al Muhajiroun ban, this time for Jamestown looking in some detail at the rationale behind the ban and a bit of history about the group. Title a little long, though I have a feeling this will be a piece that I can reuse in a few years when we go through [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Ban on U.K. Radical Islamist Group al-Muhajiroun Raises Free Speech Questions
Posted: January 22, 2010 in Terrorism MonitorTags: al muhajiroun, legislation, radicalization, terrorism, UK
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East African Terrorism Comes to Scandinavia
Posted: January 15, 2010 in Terrorism MonitorTags: denmark, Europe, radicalization, shabab, Somalia, terrorism
More about the Western-Somali connection for Jamestown, this time exploring the Denmark-Somalia connection in some detail. I have touched upon this briefly before, and more generally on Shabaab’s internationalization for ASPI and a couple for Jamestown (the Melbourne group, Operation Neath; and the Minneapolis group). Separately, am working on something with some friends trying to [...]
Goodbye Al Muhajiroun?
Posted: January 13, 2010 in Free Rad!calsTags: al muhajiroun, legislation, radicalization, terrorism, UK
A quick blogpost at FreeRad!cals about the decision, which should be officially handed down tomorrow, that adds Al Muhajiroun and her successor organizations to the proscribed terror list. I am unsure of whether this will have the desired effect of making them go away, and have a pretty strong feeling this is not the last [...]
Extremism’s Lone Warriors
Posted: January 4, 2010 in GuardianTags: denmark, lone wolves, radicalization, shabab, Somalia, terrorism, US, Yemen
Another busy day – though in reality these have been percolating over the holiday period. This one instead for Comment is Free at the Guardian which is consequently already attracting some charming comments which appear to show evidence of having willfully ignored the article at hand and chosen instead to use the opportunity to vent [...]
Umar Farouk and Londonistan
Posted: January 4, 2010 in Free Rad!calsTags: radicalization, terrorism, UK, US, Yemen
A slightly late contribution on FreeRad!cals to the Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab debate, trying to tamp down some of the hysteria there has been over his London links. It will be interesting to see how things play out with regards the “Londonistan” connection over the near future. One thing occurs to me now – when I [...]
