Tag Archives: CAGE

This week marked the 11th anniversary of the day that changed our lives forever. On 2 December 2003, my son Babar Ahmad was accused by the Metropolitan Police of being an al-Qaeda terrorist, an allegation made after officers brutally assaulted ...

Fahad Ansari, Human Rights lawyer and Caseworker for CAGE writes this piece – first published in Sweden’s second largest evening newspaper – on CAGE’s views on Swedish counter terror policy. With a renowned record for dealing with crime, Fahad questions ...

Fahad Ansari dissects the latest Prevent-led initiative which is being pushed through a well-known YouTuber. The video reduces legitimate grievances with Western foreign policy and foreign intervention to “hate” and condemns all forms of violence as unlawful without considering the ...

An introduction to a series of articles inspired by ‘The Muslims are Coming’, Arun Kundnani The threat of terrorism is a largely imagined one. They would have you believe it is the single greatest threat to the existence of Western ...

  On Tuesday 7th October, five young men, one of whom was named as 21 year old medical student Tarik Hassane, were arrested in police raids on their homes, on “suspicion of forming a terror cell in London”. Without verifying ...

  All it takes for evil to prevail is for a few good men to do nothing. (Edmund Burke) Only a few years ago, a friend and I planned a long-weekend trip to Wales. We were going to take our ...

Criminalising care and controlling the masses by fear? A review on CAGE’s 2014’s annual lecture, “Is it a Crime to Care?”
 Powerful words written by Sa’adi Shirazi emboss the gates of the United Nations building entrance: “If you’ve no sympathy ...

Moazzam, CAGE and the paralysing fear of association   Allāh will certainly aid those who aid His (Cause). Lo! Allāh is Strong, Almighty [1]. So fear them not, but fear Me, if you are true believers [2]. Let me pose ...