MDI Comment: Glenn Greenwald wades into the debate on the causes of terrorism with citations of academics, political analysts and former members of the intelligence services. Glen highlights how politicians deflect the debate away from Western foreign policy, and instead blame ‘ideology’ as the cause for terrorism to absolve […]
On 16th November 2015, a few days after the Paris Terror attack, MDI’s Abdullah al Andalusi was invited to speak on a BBC radio program to provide my opinions and counterpoint my fellow guests, Douglas Murray (Henry Jackson Society, and author of ‘Neoconservatism: Why we need it’) and […]
MDI Comment: This GALLUP survey reveals something quite contrary to the Islamophobic and ‘counter-extremist’ narratives propounded by pundits and government officials around ideology and ‘radicalisation’. It reveals that people in the U.S. are four times more likely to justify killing civilians as “sometimes justified” than the average respondent in the […]
MDI Comment: On Monday 23rd November 2015, the UK tabloid newspaper, The Sun, published the results of what many considered to be a poorly executed survey on its front page cover exclaiming that ‘1 in 5 Muslims sympathy for Jihadis’, next to a picture of the infamous ISIS […]
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