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The Prevent Review: What Went Wrong in British Counter-Extremism Policy

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 March 2023

This entry was posted in British Domestic Terrorism, Islamic Militancy and tagged Aafia Siddiqui, Abdullah Azzam, Abu Ala al-Mawdudi, Ahmadis, Ahmadiyya, Ahmed Hassan, Al-Hurraya, Al-Manaar, al-Qaeda, Albigensians, anarchism, ANTIFA, apostasy, As-Shifa mosque, Asad Fazil, Asad Shah, Behavioural Insights Team, blasphemy, Brexit, Britain, CAGE, Cageprisoners, Cathars, Channel, civil society organisations, Communism, conservatism, CONTEST, counter-extremism, counter-terrorism, David Duke, deceptive compliance, deradicalisation, Donald Trump, eco-terrorism, extreme Left, extreme Right-wing, far-Left, far-Right, Fishmongers’ Hall attack, foreign fighters, free speech, HAMAS, hate crimes, heresy, Hezbollah, Hizballah, ideology, IHRC, Imam Online, incels, Independent Review of Prevent, India, Inter-Services Intelligence, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Irfan Chishti, IRGC, ISI, ISIS, Islamic Human Rights Commission, Islamic Resistance Movement, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamism, Islamophobia, Ismail Haniyeh, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Jalal Uddin, Jews, jihadism, Joe Rogan, Karimia Institute, Kashmir, Khalistan, Khalistanis, Khatme Nubuwwat movement, Ku Klux Klan, liberalism, London Bridge attack, MCB, Me and You Education, MEND, mental health, Musharraf Hussein, Muslim Brotherhood, Muslim Council of Britain, Muslim Cultural Heritage Centre, Muslim Engagement and Development, Muzaffar Shah Qadri, narwhal tusk, Nazism, NIIP, non-violent extremism, Nottingham Islam Information Point, online radicalisation, optimism bias, Pakistan, Palestinians, politicisation, PREVENT, Prophet Muhammad, radicalisation, rehabilitation, RICU, safeguarding, Sayyid Qutb, sectarianism, Shakeel Begg, Shaker Aamer, shari’a, Sikh, Sudesh Amman, Taliban, terrorism, The Beatles, United Kingdom, Usman Khan, violent extremism, vulnerability, white supremacism, William Shawcross, YouTube, Yvonne Ridley on March 16, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

What To Make of China “Brokering” the Saudi-Iran Deal

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 14 March 2023

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This entry was posted in Foreign Policy, Gulf States, Iran, Iran Deal and tagged Abqaiq attack, Abqaiq-Khurais attack, America, ARAMCO, Barack Obama, China, Donalt Trump, Egypt, hegemony, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, IRGC, ISIS, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamism, Lebanon, maximum pressure, political warfare, proxy war, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Shia militias, Soviet Union, subversion, Syria, terrorism, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United States, Yemen on March 14, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Nazism: Origins and the Weimar Context

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 March 2023

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Adolf Hitler, Ancient Greeks, Antisemitism, Anton Drexler, Austria-Hungary, Battle of the Somme, Bavaria, Bavarian Soviet Republic, Beer Hall Putsch, Bela Kun, Bolsheviks, Britain, Brownshirts, Brusilov Offensive, Christianity, Communism, Communist Party of Germany, DAP, democracy, Die Frauenkirche, Dietrich Eckart, Dolchstoßlegende, Easter Rising, Erich Ludendorff, Ernst Röhm, espionage, Eugen Leviné, Eugenio Pacelli, far-Right, Ferdinand Foch, First World War, Foxl, France, Franconia, Freikorps, French Revolution, Friedrich Ebert, Georg von Schönerer, German Workers’ Party, Germany, Gottfried Feder, Great Depression, Great War, Habsburgs, Hans Frank, Hermann Esser, Hermann Göring, Hugo Gutmann, Hungary, hyperinflation, Ignatius of Loyola, Ireland, Jesuits, Jews, Joseph Caillaux, Julius Streicher, Kaiser, Kapp Putsch, Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch, Karl Harrer, Karl Liebknecht, Karl Lueger, Karl Mayr, KPD, League of Nations, Lusitania, Lutheranism, March Action, March Revolution, Marxism, Max Levien, Mein Kampf, Mexico, Munich Cathedral, National Socialist German Workers’ Party, nationalism, Nazi Party, Nazism, NSDAP, October Revolution, paganism, pagans, Paul von Hindenburg, Pope Pius XII, Protestantism, Räterepublik, Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold, Roman Catholic Church, Roman salute, Romanovs, Romans, Rosa Luxemburg, Rudolf Hess, Ruhr crisis, Russia, Russian Revolution, SA, Sir Roger Casement, Slovakia, Social Democratic Party, Society of Jesus, Soviet Union, Spartacist uprising, SPD, Stormtroopers, Sturmabteilung, swastika, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion Alfred Rosenberg, Thule Society, Tobias Akselrod, Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Treaty of Versailles, Ulrich Brockdorff-Rantzau, United States, Völkisch movement, Vladimir Lenin, Wall Street crash, Walther von Lüttwitz, Weimar Republic, Wilhelm Frick, William P. Frye, Winston Churchill, Wolfgang Kapp, Woodrow Wilson, Zimmermann Telegram on March 4, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Al-Qaeda and Global Terrorism: What is the Current Threat?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 23 February 2023

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This entry was posted in Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda Terrorism, Islamic State Strategy, Syria and tagged 9/11, Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, Abd al-Malek Drukdel, Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud, Abdirizaq Abdi Saleh, Abdul Malek Drukdel, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, Abdullah al-Faisal, Abdullah al-Muhajir, Abu Muhammad al-Golani, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Abu Musab Abd al-Wadud, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Afghanistan, Africa, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, Ahmad al-Shara, al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda in Iraq, al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, al-Shabab, Alexandre Dhaussy, Amn al-Kharji, Anwar al-Awlaki, AQAP, AQIM, Arid Uka, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Bryan Bijaoui, Carlos Bledsoe, Cedric Cordier, Charlie Hebdo, Chechnya, CIA, Dagestan, Daniel Pearl, Denis Cuspert, Deso Dogg, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Fahd al-Quso, Faisal Shahzad, genocide, Germany, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, Hezbollah, Hibatullah Akhundzada, Hizballah, HTS, Ibrahim al-Asiri, Intelligence, Iran, ISIS, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Israel, Jabhat al-Nusra, Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, JFS, jihadism, Jonathan Sandler, Khairiya Saber, Khaled Shaykh Muhammad, Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, Kosovo, KSM, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Lee Rigby, Major Nidal Hasan, Mali, Michael Adebolajo, Michael Adebowale, Mohammed Merah, Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, Muhammad Saeed al-Shamrani, Muhammad Saladin Zaydan, Muhammad Salah al-Din Zaidan, Mullah Muhammad Omar, Mullah Muhammad Umar, Muslim Brotherhood, Muslims, Myriam Monsonego, Nashwan Abdulbaqi, NATO, One Ummah, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Pakistani Taliban, Pensacola, PKK, President Joe Biden, Private Quinton Ezeagwula, Private William Long, Qasim al-Raymi, Qassem al-Raymi, Qassem Soleimani, Qassem Sulaymani, Richard Reid, Roshonara Choudhry, Russia, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Saif al-Adl, Salafism, Saleh al-Somali, Sanctions, Saudi Arabia, Sayf al-Adel, SDF, September 11 attacks, spies, Stephen Timms, strategy, Syria, Syrian Democratic Forces, Taliban, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Tanzim Hurras al-Deen, Tanzim Hurras al-Din, Tehrik-e-Taliban, terrorism, TTP, Um Hamza, Ummah Wahidah, United States, Usama bin Laden, Waziristan, Yemen, Zionism on February 23, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

A Prop of Autocracy and a Nest of Spies: The Russian Orthodox Church

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 6 February 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Russia, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Adolf Hitler, Austria, Bolsheviks, Bulgaria, Byzantine Empire, Byzantium, Catherine the Great, Cold War, Communism, Constantinople, Germany, Golden Horde, GULAG, Islam, Ivan the Terrible, John Kennedy, Joseph Stalin, KGB, Kievan Rus, Latin Christendom, League of the Militant Godless, Leon Trotsky, Lithuania, Living Church, Mikhail Gundyaev, Mongols, Napoleon Bonaparte, Nazism, Nikita Khrushchev, NKVD, Old Believers, Papal Revolution, Patriarch Kirill, Patriarch Nikon, Peter the Great, Poland, Raskol, Romanovs, Russia, Russian Orthodox Church, Shuya Memo, Soviet Union, Stoglavy Synod, symphonia, Tatar Yoke, Tatars, Third Rome, Tsar, Tsardom, Ukraine, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Uniate Church, Vikings, Vladimir Gundyayev, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Putin, Vladimir Sviatoslavich, Vladimir the Great, World Council of Churches on February 6, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Turkey Tries to Exploit the Latest “Blasphemy” Controversy in Sweden

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 22 January 2023

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This entry was posted in Foreign Policy, Turkey and tagged active measures, AKP, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, blasphemy, Chang Frick, Christianity, Danish cartoons, European Committee for Prophet Honouring, Finland, Hard Line, Iran, Islamism, Justice and Development Party, Jyllands-Posten, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Muslims, NATO, PKK, propaganda, Rasmus Paludan, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, RT, Russia, Russia Today, Salman Rushdie, Saudi Arabia, secularism, Stram Kurs, Sweden, The Satanic Verses, theology, Turkey, Ukraine on January 22, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The Incas and the Fall of Native America

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 December 2022

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Alfred Russel Wallace, American Civil War, American Frontier, Ancient Greece, Aristotle, Atahualpa, Atlantic slave trade, Aztecs, Bartolomé de las Casas, Battle of Wounded Knee, Brazil, Cajamarca, California, capacocha, Charles Darwin, Charles V, Christianity, Christopher Columbus, Cuxirimay Ocllo, Darwinism, Diego de Almagro, divination, Doña Angelina Yupanqui, El Dorado, Enlightenment, Epicureanism, Francisco Pizarro, Ghost Dance, gods, Gold Rush, Greeks, Hernán Cortés, Huayna Capac, Huáscar, Huejotzincas, human sacrifice, Incas, Kingdom of Cusco, Leyes Nuevas, Manco Capac, Margaret Sanger, Marie Stopes, Mayans, Mexico, Moctezuma II, Native Americans, Ninan Cuyochi, Pachacuti, paganism, Panama, Peru, Pope Paul III, Portugal, Quetzalcoatl, racism, República de Españoles, República de Indios, Roman Catholic Church, Sapa Inca, slavery, Spain, Spanish America, Spanish Americas, Sublimis Deus, Tawantinsuyu, Tlaxcalans, Trail of Tears, two republics, Vicente de Valverde, Viracocha, Wild West, World Emperor, Wounded Knee Massacre on December 30, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

Afghanistan, China, and the Memory of Fallujah: The Propaganda Focus of the Islamic State

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 December 2022

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This entry was posted in Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Abd al-Munim al-Badawi, Abdul Munim al-Badawi, Abu al-Ghadiya, Abu al-Hassan al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abu al-Husayn al-Husayni al-Qurayshi, Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi, Abu Anas al-Shami, Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, Abu Hamza al-Qurayshi, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Abu Omar al-Muhajir, Abu Umar al-Muhajir, Afghanistan, Africa, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, Amir Khan Muttaqi, Badran al-Mazidi, Caliph, China, Christianity, Communism, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Fallujah, genocide, Hina Rabbani Khar, Hindu, Hinduism, India, Intelligence, ISIS, ISKP, Islamic State, Islamic State Khorasan Province, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Mozambique, Nigeria, Omar Yousef Juma'a, paganism, Pakistan, Philippines, PKK, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, SDF, sectarianism, Sikhs, Somalia, spies, Syrian Democratic Forces, Taha Falaha, Taliban, Turkey, Uganda, Uighurs, Umar Yusef al-Juma, Umar Yusef Juma, Umar Yusef Jum’a, Uyghurs, Yemen on December 28, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

Al-Qaeda Claimed It Was Behind the 2015 ‘Charlie Hebdo’ Attack. But Was It?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 19 December 2022

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This entry was posted in Al-Qaeda Terrorism, Islamic State Terrorist Attacks and tagged Abu Abdallah, Abu Muqatil al-Tunisi, al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Amedy Coulibaly, Amn al-Kharji, Antisemitism, AQAP, Boubaker al-Hakim, Charlie Hebdo, Chérif Kouachi, Clarissa Jean-Philippe, Djamel Beghal, Farid Benyettou, France, Hayat Boumeddiene, Hypercacher, Iraq, ISIS, Islamic State, Jews, Saïd Kouachi, Syria, terrorism on December 19, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

The World Cup in Qatar and “Personal Freedom” Make the Islamic State Very Angry

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 December 2022

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This entry was posted in Jihadi Biographies, Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Abd al-Rahman al-Khorasani, Abdulrahman al-Khorasani, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Abu Ibrahim al-Khorasani, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, Abu Umar al-Baghdadi, Abu Umar al-Muhajir, Afghanistan, Africa, al-Jazeera, al-Naba, al-Qaeda, Al-Udeid Airbase, al-zanadiqa, Algeria, apostasy, Awakening, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Breaking the Walls campaign, Burkina Faso, Christianity, Christians, Crusaders, democracy, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Diwan al-Dawa wal-Masajid, Diwan al-I’lam, Egypt, FIFA World Cup, freedom of religion, God, Gulf States, Hamid al-Zawi, Hashd al-Shabi, heretics, Ibrahim al-Badri, ideology, Iran, Iraq, ISKP, Islam, Islamic State ISIS, Islamic State Khorasan Province, Islamists, Jews, jihad, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, liberalism, Mali, Mozambique, Nangarhar prison break, Niger, Operation BREAKING THE WALLS, Pakistan, personal freedom, PKK, Prophet Muhammad, Pul-e-Charkhi prison, Qatar, religion, Sahwa, Sahwat, Saudi Arabia, SDF, sectarianism, Shah Cheragh shrine, sharia, shari’a, Shi’ism, Syria, Syrian Democratic Forces, Taha Falaha, Taliban, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, West Africa, Westoxification, Wilayat al-Sahel, World Cup, Yemen, Yusuf al-Siddiq, zakat on December 4, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

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