by Rashad Ali and Haras Rafiq Martin Parsons published a three-part series on this site earlier this week about radicalisation towards extremism – and the ideology or theology that underpins violence. There was much in it that holds true. He's correct to argue that tackling violence without also tackling the ideas that create violent individuals […]
By Haras Rafiq and Rashad Ali, who are Directors of CENTRI, an organisation that specialises in countering extremism. Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, the Stockholm suicide bomber, spent a short though eventful period at the Luton Islamic Centre, a Salafist mosque, about which the Observer revealed more details on Sunday. By their own admission, they found that […]