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From Sydney to Peshawar: The biggest casualty of Islamic terror are Muslims themselves
Sandipan Sharma •On January 30, 1948, when Louis Mountbatten reached the Birla House on hearing of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination, he heard a man shriek, ‘It was a Muslim who did it.
UK PM David Cameron calls for banning extremist preachers
Fp Archives •British Prime Minister David Cameron used a rare address to the Australian Parliament on Friday to call for extremist preachers to be banned.
After Wagah, Pakistan Taliban issues direct threat to Indian PM Modi
Fp Staff •In a direct threat to PM Modi, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Jamaat Ahrar (TTP-JA) spokesperson ‘Ehsanullah Ehsan’ tweeted, “You are the killer of hundreds of Muslim... We w(il)l take the revenge of innocent people of Kashmir and Gujarat”
Mini-ISIS in West Bengal: New jihad strategy is to hold territory and recruit globally
Jagannathan •The new jihadi groups are not just planning terrorist strikes, but hold territory and recruit globally. The idea is to create mini-ISISes everywhere.
Ebola, economy and extremism emerge as key issues at US-Africa summit
Fp Archives •Nearly 50 heads of state from across Africa attended the gathering focused on how to build democracy and raise investment in the continent.
Was London's brutal attack really terrorism?
Robertson •By repeatedly using the term in news reports, does that make the public's sense of being terrorised worse than the same crime if it was only described as "murder"?
Why are Pakistan's politicians so casual about Islamist terror?
Aakar •The manifestos of its political parties are so vague about the problem that we can surmise that Pakistani leaders are either clueless on the subject or have internalised Islamist violence and don't care about it.