Islam Articles

‘About time too!’ Those were the words of a local Muslim woman I spoke to after hearing that Anjem Choudary was finally found guilty of inviting support for Islamic State. What has taken most people by surprise is the fact it took 20 years for this man to be...

A master terrorist is debating with a subordinate over some point of strategy in their bunker. The sheikh narrows his eyes, and after careful consideration remarks: ‘I agree it works in practice. But does it work in theory?’ This retelling of an old joke about...

An angry response to what seemed to me to be a well-intentioned, albeit somewhat clumsy, government letter to mosques was blamed over the weekend on a failure to engage with Muslim communities. Eric Pickles, the secretary of state for communities and local government,...

Events in Paris have been shocking and tragic. However, for those involved with protecting us from terror, they were far from unexpected. The continuing Islamist terror threat is real and known. In the United Kingdom there have been 140 individuals convicted of...