19/02/2009 Publication

New book out now — Resistance: The Essence of the Islamist Revolution

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Tags: Islamists

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Resistance: The Essence of the Islamist Revolution By Alastair Crooke Pluto Press, February 2009 Available at bookshops in the UK, at Amazon (UK) and Amazon

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17/01/2009 Article

The Middle Ground is Eroding Fast

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Hamas, Islamists, War on Gaza

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Posted on London Review of Books, January 15, 2009 ‘We have to ask the West a question: when the Israelis bombed the house of Sheikh

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01/01/2009 Publication

Wahhabism, Salafism and Islamism: Who is the Enemy?

/ Professor Ahmad Moussalli

Tags: Islamists, Political Islam, Salafism, Wahhabism

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This essay constructs and deconstructs three main discourses created by different and opposing trends in modern Islamic thought that are normally and mistakenly lumped together

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11/07/2008 Publication

Cultures of Resistance, issue I

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Tags: Dialogue, Diplomacy, Islamists, War on terrorism

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Volume I, Issue I: Jihad and Terrorism A War of Words – Moazzam Begg Talking About The Conflict – Mark Perry The Paradox of Islamist

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01/06/2008 Article

Terror and Truth

Mainstream Islamism, in its various manifestations, is an alternative political, social vision founded on rehabilitated human values.

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Al Qaeda, Dialogue, Islamists

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Article featured in The Guardian, June 1, 2008 Sir Hugh Orde speaks rarely heard truth when he says that he has never heard of a

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11/05/2008 Article

“But What if Nobody Takes Notice?”

Olmert’s ‘achievement’, if it comes, will be in terms of pocketing further Palestinian concessions. This is the ‘gift’ that Bush hopes to present to Israel on its 60th birthday.

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Fatah, Islamists, Israeli-Palestinian conflict

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“But what if nobody takes notice?” is the question posed by Robert Malley and Hussein Agha in an article in the recent New York Review

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24/03/2008 Article

The Naive Armchair Warriors are Fighting a Delusional War

If radical Islam encompasses those who are not enamoured of secular society, and who espouse a vision of society grounded in the values of Islam, then these experts are advocating a war.

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Islamists

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The French philosopher Michel Foucault notes that in all societies discourse is controlled – imperceptibly constrained, perhaps, but constrained nonetheless. We are not free to

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04/03/2008 Article

Arrest of Khaled Hamza Salam

The regime is ramping up its crackdown on MB members to preempt their ability to secure seats in the upcoming municipal elections and has arrested 400+ MB members.

/ Ibrahim El Houdaiby

Tags: Democracy, Egypt, Islamists, Muslim Brotherhood, Political Islam

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I woke up on Wednesday February 20th on the news of the arrest of Khaled Hamza Salam, IkhwanWeb.com co-editor in chief. I was on a

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25/02/2008 Article

Crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood

Brotherhood members are an integral living part of the Egyptian society who can never be marginalized.

/ Ibrahim El Houdaiby

Tags: Democracy, Egypt, Islamists, Muslim Brotherhood, Political Islam

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Those who believe that the ongoing crackdowns on the Muslim Brotherhood by the Egyptian regime will cause a major setback for the country’s largest and

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