Tag Archives: IMPERIALISM

Dilly Hussain offers a radical plan for reducing the "Islamist terror threat" to the West. But is it too big a cost for the ruling classes?

Scroll down to see an interactive timeline of articles on history over the last twelve months. “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” ― Winston Churchill Whilst aspects of history are important to be learnt ...

Sat on the sofa, we watched as grainy green night vision footage interspersed the almost still image of Baghdad’s horizon being lit up with a seemingly never ending procession of aerial bombardment. Operation “Shock and Awe” had begun in earnest. ...

Regrets gather around us like books we wish we’d read. One day a book other than the Qur’an will become most critical to us. On the day of standing, there will be a moment when the books will fly into ...

Globalising ‘Countering Violent Extremism’ – The New Imperialism? “We could favour the birth of a new Islam, more inclined towards compromise and tolerance of Europe; to encourage the young generation of ulama who are working in that direction…” ~ French ...

Asim Qureshi reviews the book, Unsettling Sikh and Muslim Conflict by Dr Katy Sian “I wonder what happened to her? I think the last I heard was that she was in Pakistan…” At the centre of Dr Katy Sian’s book, ...

Frederick Douglass, the infamous runaway slave who became a strong orator of the abolitionist movement, highlights in his autobiography a moment during his youth when he lived with his master’s brother’s family. Frederick approached the mother of the house, Sophia ...

Click the video above to watch and listen; read the verses below Spoken word poet Boonaa Mohammed drives a bulldozer through the whitewashing of history that has tried to divert attention away from the chief perpetrators of the most unimaginably cruel and enduring ...

“Futuristic” films are produced in the USA about less materially advanced human populations laid siege by merciless robot armies, with apparently no recognition that the government is inflicting that very thing on very real people. In the UK last year ...

How I saw the Seashore Child When you saw that Syrian child, an innocent, precious gem, thrown on its face on the shores of Turkey, what did you think? Did you see the child of an unfortunate ‘migrant’, who had stumbled ...