What I Learnt Interviewing Jihadists
A conversation about Iran, Israel, and Islamic terrorism with Iraqi researcher Suha Hassen.
A collection of 18 posts
A conversation about Iran, Israel, and Islamic terrorism with Iraqi researcher Suha Hassen.
Frantz Fanon’s defenders try to distance him from the of ethos of violence he advocated, even as they embrace his anti-colonialist rhetoric to promote anti-Zionism.
Many Iranians perceive Israel as a potential ally in their struggle against Islamic oppression.
Since 10/7, young social-media users have been inundated with memes that present terrorists as social justice champions.
Hamas’s progressive apologists seek self-justification in the moral incoherence of relativistic absolutism.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to influential Israeli historian Benny Morris about Hamas’ acts of mass murder, the Israeli response, and the future of Gaza.
Ayman al-Zawahiri’s reign of pious terror is now over.
Even if the referendum turns out to be a complete failure, though, the Khalistanis seem unlikely to fade away.
The TSA is an agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that was created as a response to the 9/11 attacks to make sure nothing like that ever happens again.
If we start to restrict civil liberties, spread panic and exaggerate the amount of hate and violence in our societies, we will give terrorists what they want: greater control over our political narratives and personal psychology.
The “Lorax” view of environmental problems as a consequence of greed has always been wrong and depressing.
Immigration, Islamism and integration are salient issues even in the happiest place on earth.
The best we can do in the short-term is to return again and again to the better angels of our nature and try to keep these horrific events in perspective.
This discrepancy, it is alleged, is evidence of ‘white privilege.’
Reflexive expressions of solidarity signify an internalized Western understanding that life is precious and not cheap.